Texas | November 16, 2021
Longtime Texas Democrat defects to GOP
Texas | November 16, 2021
A longtime Democratic lawmaker from South Texas switched parties Monday, giving Republicans another boost in their aggressive attempts to make inroads with voters along the U.S.-Mexico border.
State Rep. Ryan Guillen has been one of the most conservative Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives since 2002. His switch to the GOP comes after his rural border district was redrawn to heavily favor Republicans under new maps signed in October by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Guillen said his values no longer aligned with Democrats, who criticized him for switching rather than staying in the party and fighting for his seat… (Excerpts from The Washington Times)
Arizona, Texas | October 29, 2021
Biden opposition to Border Patrol mission harming national security, former chief says
Arizona, Texas | October 29, 2021
The most recent national leader of the U.S. Border Patrol said the Biden administration has not treated the federal law enforcement organization properly and that its opposition to agents’ mission poses dangers to the weekend.
Rodney Scott, who involuntarily left his post as chief in August, recently spoke with the Washington Examiner about his fear that the Border Patrol’s mandate from Congress has been undermined or frustrated under the Biden administration and the effects it is having on agents and the nation…. (Excerpts from the Washington Examiner)
Arizona, Texas | October 22, 2021
More than 125K children without parents came to US border since February
Arizona, Texas | October 22, 2021
More than 125,000 children traveling without parents have shown up along the U.S.-Mexico border to be taken into custody during the Biden administration, an astronomical figure far beyond precedent. The child migrant crisis has dogged President Joe Biden throughout his tenure and dragged down his approval ratings. He has tried to overhaul border measures implemented by former President Donald Trump in an effort to more quickly process migrants and ensure that children are not held in inadequate facilities — even going so far as to fly them under the cover of night to states far from the border. Republicans charge that, in the process, he has created the aforementioned influx of unaccompanied children. The crisis is far from resolved…. (Excerpts from the White House Dossier)
Texas | October 7, 2021
Border Patrol confiscating record amount of narcotics at southern border
Texas | October 7, 2021
Despite being overwhelmed and understaffed, maligned by partisan detractors — even repudiated by some at the top of the very government they loyally serve — agents continue to perform hazardous drug interaction duties to protect Americans’ health, security and lives. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol Sectors continue to report record amounts of drug confiscations along the southern border. Agents (and their canine companions) continue to achieve under hazardous conditions, despite being routinely maligned by partisan detractors — and even repudiated by some at the top of the very U.S. government they loyally and valiantly serve…. (Excerpts from Just the News)
District of Columbia, Texas | October 7, 2021
U.S. knew in July thousands of Haitians were prepping for journey to U.S. border, officials say
District of Columbia, Texas | October 7, 2021
Two officials said progressives in the Biden administration blocked a plan to start deportations to Haiti before the migrant surge in Del Rio, Texas.
The U.S. knew in July that thousands of Haitians were heading to the U.S. border, but a failure to share intelligence and an internal debate over whether to increase deportations left immigration officials ill-equipped to handle the 28,000 who converged on a Texas bridge last month, three U.S. officials said.
The officials said the Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged the failures internally and has made them part of its discussions to be better prepared for any future surge.
Two of the officials said that the debate over starting deportations before the migrant surge in Del Rio, Texas, was a political battle between progressives and others at DHS and that the progressives won, delaying deportation flights.
Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis all had information as far back as July that indicated that large groups of Haitians were making their way north from South and Central America to the U.S. border, the three officials said. But the intelligence was not shared widely enough within DHS and across agencies to indicate the size or speed of the group of migrants or that they would all arrive in one location. In an interview Sept. 20 in Del Rio, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, “I don’t think we expected the rapidity of the increase that occurred.”… (Excerpts from NBC News)
Texas | October 6, 2021
By presuming Border Patrol agents guilty, Biden’s rush to judgement reveals anti-police bias
Texas | October 6, 2021
When President Joe Biden took the podium last week, he falsely claimed mounted Border Patrol agents in the now-famous picture approached migrants on horses “nearly running them over and people being strapped,” by which he meant whipped. He then pledged that “those people will pay.”
Clearly, Mr. Biden cared nothing for the facts. The agents never even came close to riding down the illegal immigrants, and in no case did they whip them. The video footage clearly shows the agents expertly controlling their animals and using the reins only on the horses, as they are trained to do. But facts and due process don’t seem to apply to President Biden when it comes to law enforcement officers. Increasingly, the police are presumed guilty until proven innocent. And even then, their false “guilt” lives on in the public’s consciousness. As President Reagan’s Secretary of Labor Ray Donovan said, upon his exoneration after being unjustly tarred by the left and the media, “Which office do I go to get my reputation back?”…(Excerpts from the Washington Times)