The Texas Governoir IS doing his own immigration policy, which is illegal in concept .
It is causing problem at the US/Mexican border….
He has set up truck inspection enforcement as soon as they cross into Texas causing YUGE backlogs….
His reason for this?
To stop smuggling of migrants which is solely the job of the Federal Government…
Why?
Abbott is rnning for re-election and the Democrat, Beto O’Rourke is actually close in the polls for the election in November….
All this has diverted a lot of trucks to other state’s….
And delayed deliveries of product for consumer’s….
Trucks attempting to enter Texas loaded with goods from Mexico sat motionless for hours on Tuesday as lengthy vehicle inspections ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott in a clash with the Biden administration over immigration snarled traffic at major commercial crossings.
In the city of Pharr, a major international bridge over which about $12 million in produce is shipped to the United States daily has been effectively shut down in both directions since Monday as scores of drivers in Mexico set up a blockade of their own in protest over the new inspections. A similar protest by truckers also blocked a bridge into El Paso.
Since last week, commercial vehicles entering Texas have faced not only the usual federal immigration and customs inspections, but new checkpoints set up by Texas police on the roadway immediately after a measure Mr. Abbott said he was ordering in response to the flow of illegal drugs and human trafficking across the border. With delays stretching up to 14 hours, some drivers have diverted to Arizona and New Mexico.
“It’s at crisis level now,” Dante Galeazzi, the president of the Texas International Produce Association, said. “The biggest challenge is that we just don’t know how long this is going to last.”…
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Mr. Abbott, a two-term Republican up for re-election in November, has presented the inspections as a means of addressing the anticipated impacts of that termination, which is expected to lead to thousands of additional migrants seeking asylum across the border each day — the largest number of them in Texas.
Mr. Abbott strongly opposes some of the Biden administration’s moves to ease Trump-era restrictions on immigration. But because the federal government alone has authority over immigration matters, Mr. Abbott has sought novel strategies to insert the state into immigration enforcement, such as arresting migrants for misdemeanor trespassing. The vehicle inspections are part of that effort: a carefully constructed policy aimed at smugglers and migrants but carried out under powers available to the state, namely vehicle safety.
Opinion: Greg Abbott is starving his own voters to own the libs
…Even fellow Republicans have criticized Abbott’s policy, with Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller calling the inspections “economy killing” and warning that they will soon drive produce prices higher, if the produce is available at all.
“Your inspection protocol is not stopping illegal immigration,” Miller, an early supporter of Donald Trump, wrote in an open letter. “It is stopping food from getting to grocery store shelves and, in many cases, causing food to rot in trucks — many of which are owned by Texas and other American companies.”
In the face of mounting pushback, Abbott relented slightly Wednesday and announced that he was relaxing inspections at the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge — but that’s just one of the 13 commercial crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border….
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Greg Abbott has made it abundantly clear that Republicans will try and destroy the economy so they can try and take power again.