"The Biden Administration has created a constitutional crisis between the federal government and the State of Texas," Abbott replied. "This stems from the Biden Administration's refusal to enforce immigration laws and allow illegal immigrants with COVID-19 to enter our country. President Biden has a duty and a responsibility to protect and uphold our nation's sovereignty, yet he has long-since abdicated his authority to do so.

"As the Governor of Texas, I have a responsibility to protect the people of Texas — a responsibility that grows more urgent by the day while the Biden Administration sits on the sidelines. I have the authority, and duty, under the constitutions of the United States and of Texas to protect Texans and our nation. I also have the authority under long-established emergency response laws to control the movement of people to better contain the spread of a disaster, such as those known to have COVID-19. My duty remains to the people of Texas, and I have no intention of abdicating that."

The Biden administration should "stop admitting migrants who are not authorized by Congress to be admitted," Abbott said. "That would substantially reduce the importation of COVID-19 while also fulfilling the federal government's role to faithfully execute the laws of the United States."

Merrick is now asking a federal judge to block Abbott's order, arguing, "In our constitutional system, a State has no right to regulate the federal government's operations," adding "this restriction on the transportation of noncitizens would severely disrupt federal immigration operations."

"It is clear that the Biden Administration fundamentally misunderstands what is truly happening at the Texas-Mexico border," Abbott said in response. "It would be of some solace if the federal government were conducting appropriate COVID-19 testing and other mitigation strategies, but to the contrary, we hear too many reports of the federal government recklessly failing to do so and instead admitting into the United States — and Texas — migrants from over 150 countries, many of whom are testing positive for COVID-19.

"In short, the Biden Administration is jeopardizing the health and safety of Texans on a daily basis by refusing to follow the law. And it's not just Texans; these irresponsible policies and actions by the Biden Administration are endangering the lives of many Americans as well as the unlawful immigrants themselves."

The lawsuit was filed after bipartisan members of Congress called on Biden to halt the administration's open border policies,

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There have been occasions and periods when Texas has had the highest rate of covid infection in America, and that was when Trump was still president. Abbott has been lax about protecting the people of Texas from the beginning. He had their restaurants open when most of the rest of the nation did not. He removed mask requirements long before other states did. 

A lot of people think he is quite dumb too. 

A lot of people think he is quite dumb too. 

Yet he is Governor and Texas is doing quite well.  I wonder if the same can be said for California, or Illinois, or New York, or New Jersey.

Red states are doing better and have been since 2017.  The ones that had few or no lockdowns  are doing better now as well.  I’m in a blue state but our local area is red and locally we pretty much did what Florida did.  The state was going to crack down on us last fall when we got hit with our first wave of it but before they could the coastal urban areas got the 2nd wave so they could not.  Our unemployment rate is closer to Florida and Texas than the rest of California. 

I have great empathy for the "red" areas of "blue" states.   They try to be rational, independent and responsible, but the other areas drag them down.  

I'm off now.  The wife and kids are FINALLY ready to head to TN to visit with my daughter and her family.  Hopefully, by the time I get back on-line, some sanity will have visited DC and the Democrats.   Yeah I know, 'Who am I kidding'?

Be well and stay safe.

Have a great trip!  I was born in Tennessee.  My parents won’t to college in Tennessee, met there and got married and I was born before they settled in my moms home town here when I was an infant.  I got to go back as an adult and found it to be a beautiful state.  I really liked Nashville.  It and Lincoln, Ne. Where I went to college are two places I’d like to live in or near if I didn’t live here.  I’m sure there are red areas of places like Illinois and New York as well as Oregon and Washington that are having the same problems we have here in Ca.  

Fox News Reporter Catches it All On Video: Border Control Conducting ‘Mass Release’ of Illegal Immigrants

by Martin Walsh about 2 hours ago

U.S. Border Patrol agents are apparently “mass releasing” illegal immigrants out of Texas to destinations across the country.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin took to Twitter to share images and videos of buses and vans transporting illegal immigrants out of a local bus station in McAllen, Texas, to destinations across the nation.

Melugin tweeted, “We are witnessing the mass release of migrants in downtown McAllen today. Border Patrol buses and vans are pulling up every 15 minutes.”

He added, “Agents tell us it’ll be happening all day long. Hundreds released so far. Most going to the McAllen bus station. BP overwhelmed.”

Melugin tweeted, “Large groups of migrants being walked to McAllen Central Bus Station by a local Catholic Charity after they were dropped off & released by Border Patrol. This is happening every hour. Migrants are given bus tickets wherever they want to go.”

Another tweet featuring video footage added, “All morning long we’ve watched Border Patrol drop off multiple bus loads of migrants at a Catholic charity in downtown McAllen, where they are given food & shelter before they take buses and flights across the United States. Buses arriving every 30 minutes so far.”

Melugin also added additional reporting from Fox News’ Griff Jenkins, tweeting, “Per DHS sources, local Border Patrol stations in McAllen area are currently 585% over capacity and there are “mass releases” underway. @GriffJenkins reports there were more than 8,000 apprehensions in RGV over the weekend, and more than 3,000 in the last 24 hours.”

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott is going after the Biden administration and accusing them of creating a “constitutional crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Abbott responded to a letter from Attorney General Merrick Garland that told him that his order was not enforceable and he must rescind it.

“The Biden Administration has created a constitutional crisis between the federal government and the State of Texas,” he said, The New York Post reported .

“This stems from the Biden Administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws and allow illegal immigrants with COVID-19 to enter our country,” Abbott said.

He said that his state is being “overrun and overwhelmed” by the record number of migrants and that “cartels and smugglers profit off the chaos.”

“Not only that, but this crisis also extends beyond the border as deadly drugs like fentanyl infiltrates our communities,” the governor said.

“This already dangerous situation continues to deteriorate as the Biden Administration knowingly imports COVID-19 into Texas from across the border—willfully exposing Texans and Americans alike,” he said.

“I have the authority, and duty, under the constitutions of the United States and of Texas to protect Texans and our nation,” he said.

“I also have the authority under long-established emergency response laws to control the movement of people to better contain the spread of a disaster, such as those known to have COVID-19,” he said.

“However, the Constitution does not allow the Biden Administration to fabricate its own immigration laws,” he said.

“Worse, the Biden Administration is knowingly admitting hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants, many of whom the federal government knows full well have COVID-19,” the governor said.

“To be clear, the Biden Administration is knowingly importing COVID-19 into Texas from across the border and knowingly exposing Texans and Americans to that disease,” he said.

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Melugin has done a very good job reporting on Biden's border crisis.

Yes, he has.  I’ve been both impressed with his reporting and angered by what he’s been reporting on because of Biden.  

A lot of people think he is quite dumb too. 

A lot of people think that other people are even dumber, because those dumbasses were photographed maskless - Pelosi, Murphy, Lightfoot, Newsom, Whitmer, Cuomo, Bowser ... to name just a few.

The democrat imperial condescending arrogance of “rules for thee but not for me” pervades their thought process.  

Covid positive illegal aliens in Texas?  Never happen, well except when it does....  Screw the American citizens and legal resident aliens.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued the executive order July 28 after authorities reportedly discovered a migrant family, being aided by the local Catholic Charities agency, at a fast-food restaurant without masks even though they were supposed to be in quarantine at a hotel after testing positive for COVID-19. catholiccharitiesusa

And as many know it's not just "Northern Triangle" illegals coming.

More migrants appear to be on their way, as COVID-19 travel restrictions begin to relax worldwide. Right now, at least 9,000 northbound migrants from Haiti and several other countries are stranded in the town of Necoclí, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. They aren’t being blocked: it’s just that their numbers have overwhelmed the ferry service that takes them to the opposite shore of the Gulf of Urabá, where they cross into Panama. Colombia lifted its pandemic border closures in May, and migration numbers jumped soon afterward. wola

If Biden and his entourage of merry progressive Marxists don't want to listen to the average citizens of America, maybe they'll listen to a Democrat Congressman form the area?  Hell no, they ignore him too.  He's not on the same sheet of flood America with illegal aliens music that the administration is playing.

Washington, D.C .— Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) is urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to prioritize the health and safety of border agents and border communities amidst a COVID-19 surge in the Rio Grande Valley. The migrant surge has resulted in the temporary shutdown of Catholic Charities, nearly 70 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the RGV sector, 17 border agents testing positive for COVID-19 in the Laredo sector, and 233 hospital beds occupied in the local area. Additionally, 27% of the unaccompanied children deported this week tested positive for COVID-19 with Brownsville experiencing a 15% positivity rate. Border Patrol is also sending immigrants directly to the McAllen COVID-19 testing site. cuellar.house

I wonder what the Biden administration response would be if the CITIZENS of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley area stood up and protested by BLOCKING ALL ROADS into their towns and cities refusing access to all buses carrying illegals from the border?   Would the Federal Government demand Texas Governor Abbott call out the National Guard to clear the roads?

I got ripped by some others here earlier for maintaining that Biden was deliberately importing covid into the USA through that border and resettling it in communities across the country and here’s the proof.  

A top   Border Patrol union official   is warning that agents are having to release COVID-positive migrants into the U.S. "day in, day out" -- amid the ongoing crisis at the border, which also has Border Patrol agents worried about their own health.

"Not everyone we encounter we test, only those that exhibit some type of symptoms and not everybody has symptoms that has it," Chris Cabrera, a vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, said Saturday on "Fox News Live." 

"And we’re releasing people out of the door day in and day out with actual positive tests for COVID and more keep popping up," he said.

Cabrera also warned that his sector alone has seen 20,000 apprehension of migrants at the border, with 2-3,000 every day just in the area -- and that doesn’t take into consideration those who are evading overwhelmed Border Patrol agents.

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In response to the lawsuit, Abbott claimed in a statement Friday that the Biden administration “has created a constitutional crisis between the federal government and the State of Texas” by “ knowingly import[ing] COVID-19 into Texas from across the border—willfully exposing Texans and Americans alike.”

“President Biden has a duty and a responsibility to protect and uphold our nation’s sovereignty, yet he has long-since abdicated his authority to do so,” Abbott added. “As the Governor of Texas, I have a responsibility to protect the people of Texas—a responsibility that grows more urgent by the day while the Biden Administration sits on the sidelines.”

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Texas Rep. Chip Roy calls for impeachment of President Biden, DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Customs and Border Patrol have encountered more than 1 million migrants so far this fiscal year

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Texas Rep. Chip Roy is calling for the impeachment of both President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over their response to the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border over the past six months.

"Over the past several months, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas have blatantly and consistently refused to do their constitutional duty to take care that the immigration laws be faithfully executed, as required by Article II, endangering countless American and foreign lives in the process," Roy told Fox News Tuesday.

After conservative radio host Jesse Kelly described the border crisis as "more impeachable than Watergate" Monday, Roy retweeted the message and wrote "Co-sponsor. #ImpeachBiden #ImpeachMayorkas."

Then on Tuesday, he retweeted Fox News’ Bill Melugin’s reporting on Border Patrol buses releasing hundreds of migrants in McAllen, Texas.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION RESUMES FAST-TRACK DEPORTATION FLIGHTS FOR MIGRANTS DENIED ASYLUM

"The Border is in total chaos," Roy wrote. "#ImpeachBiden #ImpeachMayorkas #Title42 #BidenBorderCrisis."

Title 42 refers to a Trump-era health rule that allows for the expulsion of arriving migrants due to coronavirus concerns that the Biden administration has been accused of flouting. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended the policy Tuesday, but many migrants are still being released from custody into the U.S.

Melugin reported that buses and vans were pulling into McAllen at regular intervals, releasing hundreds of migrants and leaving Border Patrol "overwhelmed."

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had a similar response Monday, noting that the surge was continuing amid Democrats’ domestic calls for renewed coronavirus restrictions.

BORDER PATROL UNION OFFICIAL WARNS COVID-POSITIVE MIGRANTS BEING RELEASED INTO US ‘DAY IN, DAY OUT’

"Biden and Harris have created a national security crisis & they are making you pay for it, while telling Americans they have to mask up, vaccinate, and prepare to lockdown again," she tweeted.

Over the weekend, Melugin shared drone footage showing hundreds of migrants in Border Patrol custody under the Anzalduas Bridge in Mission, Texas, near a common crossing of the Rio Grande...

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