Immigration policy and enforcement is the sole responsibility of the United States Government….
There is NO ‘if and or buts’…..
Texas Republican Governoir Abbott is reported to have orederd his state police to abrehend undocumented persons and transport them back to the Texas / Mexico border….
Hmmmm?
Might that be a form of kidnapping?
What will be President Biden’s or Attorney General Garland’s reaction?
Could this land on the desk of the Alito 5?….
Could them change this up?
Immigration continues to be a policy Republicans are using against Biden….
Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday cleared state authorities to return migrants they apprehend to the border, setting up a potential clash with the federal government over the authority to enforce immigration law.
Immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility. Abbott appears to be testing the limits of state authority by empowering state law enforcement and National Guard troops under state deployment to bring migrants to the ports of entry — stopping short of using state resources to expel migrants from the country, as immigration hawks have increasingly called for in recent months.
It was not immediately clear how state law enforcement would determine which migrants should be transported.
Despite the state’s allocation of $4 billion for border security and the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and state police to the border, Abbott has faced growing pressure from within his party to assert a stronger state role and invoke “invasion” powers under the U.S. Constitution. Such a declaration, some Texas Republicans contend, would give states solid legal ground to invoke war powers to allow the state’s National Guard to deport migrants. The idea has been widely derided by legal experts as a political ploy, and Abbott earlier this year expressed concern that it could expose state law enforcement to federal prosecution.
But on Thursday, Abbott stopped just shy of fulfilling those requests…..
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“Gov. Abbott is inviting a lawsuit from the Biden administration just as the Arizona legislature did over a decade ago … which led to the Supreme Court laying out that the federal government alone has authority to do immigration enforcement,” he said.
Reichlin-Melnik said the order could also expose troopers and National Guard service members to a lawsuit from migrants. He noted that as recently as April, Abbott had expressed concern that issuing an “invasion” declaration could expose state authorities to federal prosecution….
As Hispanics are his votiers in increasing numbers for Republicans?
I have lost interest in immigration “reform.”
I addressed Abott and the Hispanic vote here….
Yes….
In Texas Republicans ARE doing good with Hispanics…
But for the whole country?
Democrats get the most votes from that bloc….
It’s not just Texas.
Republicans share of the Hispanic vote is growing throughout the country.Indeed ,such is credited with moving Florida into the category of a red state.
Formerly,it was Cubans were vote friendly to Republicans.However, now other Hispanics are moving toward the Republicans.
I mentioned awhile back that some of this had to do with the “Ive got mine” syndrome ,whereby Hispanics who have been here awhile ,no longer care about other members of their ethnic group.Others claim that Hispanics are in general more religiously inclined and like the Republican social agenda.
Democrats have lost elections due to their identification with and often rabid support of immigration “reform.”If Hispanics can’t see that such things as the Republican effort to demonize AOC just because she’s an Hispanic (as her views are not any different from other White Democratic Women) and such riles up the White Republican base?Then I will no longer get riled up either.I personally have nothing to lose as the Republicans continue to use Hispanics as a rallying call to their racist base.
There are other issues that are more important to me.If there are others like you who want to keep up the drumbeat for a group that seemingly is less concerned with such matters as immigration “reform?”
Have at it.Count me out!
Your view on the Hispanic vote ring’s true in the Axis states of Texas and Florida……
But?
As i point out not necessarily so other places by millions…..
‘I got mine’ IS correct…….
Sure other things are more important….
But?
In places Biden and Dem’s need votes?
It is costing them……
Hispanic’s have been crying to Democrats for years about this…….
But does the party play to the Axis states or the overall vote?
With the political situation now?
Democrats need EVERY vote they can get OVERALL!