Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas

#601

Abbott wrote a nasty gram.
https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/pre ... 4.2024.pdf

RTH10260 · #602

Just short before declaring secession

Volkonski · #603

Greg Abbott Uses 'Supreme Law' of Texas to Give Soldiers Power Over Biden

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-us ... en-1863773

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared his state's "right to self-defense," using "the supreme law of the land" to give soldiers power over President Joe Biden on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Abbott and the Justice Department have been duking it out in court over a number of deterrent tactics that the governor has tried to use to stop the surge of migrants illegally crossing into the U.S. through the southern border. The tactics have included a floating barrier across the Rio Grande and razor-wire fencing.

In the 2023 fiscal year, which ended in September, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) had 3.2 million encounters, according to agency data. Encounter data includes USBP Title 8 Apprehensions, Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissibles and Title 42 Expulsions.

Abbott issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing Biden for violating "his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress."

In his statement, Abbott said the Biden administration's failure to "protect each [State] against invasion," as stated in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, "has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, "which reserves to this State the right of self-defense.

"For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

Abbott said that the "Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border."

#604

Time to turn off the federal treasury faucet to TX. Start with highway monies, and work your way through NASA and DOD contracts. Close the ports. Deny airspace to commercial flights. Arrest Abbott as an insurrectionist. Take your pick. And then start the process of breaking the state up into three or four pieces.

#605

Can the cities and states Abbott is trafficking migrants to send their National Guard against the TX National Guard on a similar basis?

Flatpoint High · #606

Volkonski wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:48 am Greg Abbott Uses 'Supreme Law' of Texas to Give Soldiers Power Over Biden

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-us ... en-1863773

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared his state's "right to self-defense," using "the supreme law of the land" to give soldiers power over President Joe Biden on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Abbott and the Justice Department have been duking it out in court over a number of deterrent tactics that the governor has tried to use to stop the surge of migrants illegally crossing into the U.S. through the southern border. The tactics have included a floating barrier across the Rio Grande and razor-wire fencing.

In the 2023 fiscal year, which ended in September, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) had 3.2 million encounters, according to agency data. Encounter data includes USBP Title 8 Apprehensions, Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissibles and Title 42 Expulsions.

Abbott issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing Biden for violating "his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress."

In his statement, Abbott said the Biden administration's failure to "protect each [State] against invasion," as stated in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, "has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, "which reserves to this State the right of self-defense.

"For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

Abbott said that the "Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border."

So. he can now murder the migrants.

#607

Republican Governors Band Together, Issue Joint Statement Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Right to Self-Defense
January 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 25 Republican governors released the following joint statement in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.

The statement comes as the Biden Administration continues to attack Texas and refuses to take action or responsibility for the crisis at the Southern border.

“President Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border. Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.

“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border. We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.

“The authors of the U.S. Constitution made clear that in times like this, states have a right of self-defense, under Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Because the Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.”

Signatories include: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Mike Parson (MO), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Mike DeWine (OH), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Bill Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).

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https://www.rga.org/republican-governor ... f-defense/

#608

Yep, Civil War 2.0.

Dave from down under · #609

The first shots of the 2nd US civil war..

#610

RWNJ media is reporting Biden admin gave Abbott a 1pm EST deadline, or else "military action" would occur.

Yeah, right, somehow I don't think that is exactly how it went down. We'll see though I suppose.

#611

I dunno if this is punitive, or something that was happening anyway.
https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1750 ... 98419?s=20

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX wrote: Biden’s decision to freeze LNG exports threatens Texas—and America.

This reckless decision is a gut punch to the hard-working men and women in the energy industry.

It also could cause some countries to rely upon dirty coal as opposed to cleaner burning natural gas.

Volkonski · #612

Abbott seems to have forgotten that Texas also produces dirty coal.

#613

The battle lines have been drawn... The 25 states that "stand with texas".

RTH10260 · #614

Volkonski wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:09 pm Abbott seems to have forgotten that Texas also produces dirty coal.

Once the former guy is back in offfice TX will start washing it

Dave from down under · #615

Texas formally seceded on March 2, 1861 to become the seventh state in the new Confederacy.

Abbot appears to be trying a do-over..

Could the US just give Texas back to Mexico?

#616

You think Mexico wants it back now?

Frater I*I · #617

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:10 pm You think Mexico wants it back now?

Fun fact Texas is the only state to secede TWICE so they could preserve slavery...

#618

Now this is election interference. I smell a fictional rat in this contrived mess. Organized duplicity.

Volkonski · #619

Many old white male Texans are panicking because the state's voters are becoming browner, younger and more female.

They feel that now is their last chance to change the rules of politics so they can cling to power.

It is pathetic.

#620

SoDak Gov Noem proves she has a thorough knowledge of America Revisionist History. From the Land of Alternative Facts, I offer this short example why the good citizens of South Dakota entrusted their state to her. But George Conway breaks it down for us succinctly as he is fond of doing.

#621

Sound familiar?
https://x.com/rbreich/status/1750642203985113267

Robert Reich @RBReich wrote: You may have heard about TX Gov. Abbott’s defiant letter claiming the feds have "broken the compact between the United States and the States" by not fixing the border. That choice of language is no accident. It is from South Carolina's 1860 declaration of secession.

#622

OK, this is about eight kinds of wrong.

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sad-cafe · #623

they could have had Beto

Suranis · #624

Well his face is clearly Inserted into the picture, but otherwise... there is a whole ass load of wrong there.

Volkonski · #625

The Residents of Eagle Pass, Texas, Just Want Their Town Back
Greg Abbott is fighting Joe Biden over a small border town’s community park—and the Supreme Court is refereeing. It’s turned life there upside down.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/202 ... bbott.html

Throughout January, a right-wing militant group based out of North Carolina called upon supporters to travel to a small Texas border town to “gather” and help “do the work of closing our borders.”

“By Ballot, by choice,” the group’s website promised. “By Bullet if forced. The Republic will be Restored.”

Mike Garcia, a resident of Eagle Pass, Texas—the small town in question—heard about the North Carolina visitors from a reporter who gave him and some other locals a heads-up. “We were freaking out,” Garcia said. He and a group of residents alerted a nearby high school and others in the community. And soon enough, on Jan. 20, Garcia saw what were undeniably a couple of outsiders driving around the local Shelby Park. (“When you’re 98 percent Hispanic, and somebody who’s white with a big beard, looking like they came from Duck Dynasty—they stick out,” he said.) The outsiders drove their pickup trucks slowly by the gate of the park, peering out their windows, looking past the concertina wire and National Guardsmen and state troopers for drama.

But as far as Garcia could tell, the trip was a dud; the visitors expected to see an area overrun with migrants and immigration officials, but they arrived at a time when the area’s migrant processing had been redirected to a different location. “They were disappointed,” Garcia said, “because there were no immigrants.”

The encounter was just one episode exemplifying the absurdity of life right now in Eagle Pass; already, a second, more organized and publicized caravan of anti-immigration protesters is working its way south toward the city. In recent months, the town of 28,000 has transformed from a relatively quiet international commerce waypoint into a destination for conservative livestreaming and speechmaking. As the maneuvering in Washington over border politics heats up—the GOP is moving to impeach the Homeland Security director, and Republicans are working to kill a strict but bipartisan border deal, seemingly in order to preserve their own campaign rallying cry—Eagle Pass has become the site of a turf war between the federal and state government, and a focal point in political posturing around the border.

The mostly Mexican American residents of Eagle Pass—which abuts the town of Piedras Negras in Mexico across the Rio Grande—have long understood bureaucratic snags and political whims to be a part of a border town’s operations. But recently, with a spike in migrant crossings and the Republican Party’s corresponding decision to make immigration a key issue of the 2024 campaign season, the political wrangling has reached a new high.

Over the past few years, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been feuding with the Biden administration, pitting federal Border Patrol against Abbott’s Texas National Guard and state troopers in a conflict for control over the border. Eagle Pass’ mayor, Ronaldo Salinas Jr., said that at some point the town must have developed a reputation as one of the safest crossing points from Mexico; as migrants changed course to come through Eagle Pass, a complex shift in immigration factors left the city overwhelmed and heavily scrutinized this winter. During one week in late December, 12,000 undocumented immigrants crossed into the city’s territory.

Eagle Pass’ 47-acre Shelby Park encompasses much of the city’s access to the river and serves as a natural staging area for immigration agents. As the park became something of a hub for migrant encounters, tensions between the federal and Texas immigration enforcement authorities only grew.