#Texas immigration law

[alwaysbewoke]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Republican Governor Abbott is playing to that old Texas secession nonsense.

Abbott is a human trafficker and a murderer.

[an-onyx-void]

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[higurehige]

So texas just declared rebellion against the united states ....I live in Texas.... Not really sure how that's gonna go down but, alright, guess we're just fillin out the square that said "civil war" earlier than I expected....

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Rob Rogers

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 13, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JAN 14, 2024

Last night a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande that marks the border between the U.S. and Mexico near Eagle Pass, Texas. 

U.S. Border Patrol agents knew that a group of six migrants were in distress in the river but could not try to save them, as they normally would, because troops from the Texas National Guard and the Texas Military Department prevented the Border Patrol agents from entering the area where they were struggling: Shelby Park, a 47-acre public park that offers access to a frequently traveled part of the river and is a place where Border Patrol agents often encounter migrants crossing the border illegally. 

They could not enter because two days ago, on Thursday, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent armed Texas National Guard soldiers and soldiers from the Texas Military Department to take control of Shelby Park. Rolando Salinas, the mayor of Eagle Pass, posted a video on Facebook showing the troops and saying that a state official had told him that state troops were taking “full control” over Shelby Park “indefinitely.” Salinas made it clear that “[t]his is not something that we wanted. This is not something that we asked for as a city.”

The Texas forces have denied United States Border Patrol officials entry into the park to perform their duties, asserting that Texas officials have power over U.S. officials. 

On December 18, Abbott signed into law S.B. 4, a measure that attempts to take into state hands the power over immigration the Constitution gives to the federal government. Courts have repeatedly reinforced that immigration is the responsibility of federal, not state, government, but now, according to Uriel J. García of the Texas Tribune, “some Texas Republicans have said they hope the new law will push the issue back before a U.S. Supreme Court that is more conservative since three appointees of former President Donald Trump joined it.”

On January 3 the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the new law, saying: “Texas cannot run its own immigration system. Its efforts, through S.B. 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations.” 

Abbott and MAGA Republicans are teeing up the issue of immigration as a key line of attack on President Joe Biden in 2024, but while they are insisting the issue is so important they will not agree to fund Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s 2022 invasion until it is solved, they are also unwilling to participate in discussions to fund more border officers or immigration courts. Today, once again, Biden reminded reporters that he has asked Congress to pass new border measures since he took office, but rather than pass new laws, Republicans appear to be doubling down on pushing the idea that migrants threaten American society and that an individual state—Texas, in this case—can override federal authority.

Abbott has spent more than $100 million of Texas tax dollars to send migrants to cities led by Democrats. These migrants have applied for asylum and are waiting for a hearing; they are in the U.S. legally. In September 2023, Texas stopped coordinating with nonprofits in those cities that prepared for migrant arrivals. 

Yesterday, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker wrote to Abbott, calling him out for choosing “to sow chaos in an attempt to score political points.” Pritzker noted that Abbott is “sending asylum seekers from Texas to the Upper Midwest in the middle of winter—many without coats, without shoes to protect them from the snow—to a city whose shelters are already overfilled with migrants you sent here.” Chicago’s temperatures are set to drop below zero this weekend, Pritzker wrote, and he “strongly urge[d]” Abbott to stop sending people to Illinois in these conditions. “You are dropping off asylum seekers without alerting us to their arrivals, at improper locations at all hours of the night.”

Pritzker wrote that he supports bipartisan immigration reform but “[w]hile action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves. Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state. We are asking you to help prevent additional deaths. We should be able to come together in a bipartisan fashion to urge Congress to act. But right now, we are talking about human beings and their survival. I hope we can at least agree on saving lives right now.”

Speaking on the right-wing Dana Loesch Show last week, Abbott said, “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.” 

On January 13, 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President–elect Martin van Buren to explain his position on South Carolina’s recent assertion that sovereign states could overrule federal laws. “Was this to be permitted the government would lose the confidence of its citizens and it would induce disunion everywhere. No my friend, the crisis must be now met with firmness, our citizens protected, and the modern doctrine of nullification and secession put down forever…. [N]othing must be permitted to weaken our government at home or abroad,” he wrote.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[skytreacher]

Great video to help understand what we are voting for in Texas this November.

[1990mx5]

Ok I haven’t seen anything about this so! The state of Texas now officially recognises white people as the minority* group in the state. This is because Hispanic people now make up more than 40.2% if Texas’s population. Pretty cool, right?

*minority being based on numbers alone, not that white people are suddenly a marginalized group.

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Texas mayors heading to DC for Tuesday’s immigration announcement

Two Texas border mayors will travel to Washington on Tuesday when President Joe Biden will announce an executive order that will mark his latest and most aggressive plan to reduce the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum in the United States, US media reported.

Brownsville Mayor John Cowen and Edinburg Mayor Ramiro Garza confirmed they had received invitations from the White House for Tuesday’s immigration announcement. Cowen told the Associated Press that he plans to attend, while Garza said he would have more details about his plans on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Democratic mayor of Eagle Pass, a Texas-Mexico border town where the number of migrants has led to a clash between state and federal authorities over border security, had not received an invitation as of Sunday. The mayor from McAllen said he had received an invitation but was unable to attend because of prior commitments.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about other mayors who also received an invitation to the announcement.

Read more HERE

[jessica-marie-baumgartner]

the court system is a drunky

[modernlawyer]

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[nebraskaenergy]

This speaks better

than I can, This is only 19 minutes long and well worth your attention. Gotta love Robert – he shows us the documents and reads and explains what is being discussed, for those of us with no legal background. I think it’s an important video and hope that you stay with it til the end. And then there’s this! I hate to say, “I told you so!” but … ummm – I told you so! And this: This: [We keep…

[prncssguya]

so, if texas can just ignore the supreme court, can the rest of us ignore the dobbs ruling that overturned roe v wade?