Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
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I don’t know why they need to know your purpose. That seems over the the top to me, freedom lover that I am.
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
This is mostly going to hurt Texas businesses.
Commercial border crossings in El Paso slow to snail's pace after Texas steps up security
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/commer ... ce=twitter
Commercial border crossings in El Paso slow to snail's pace after Texas steps up security
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/commer ... ce=twitter
Hundreds of commercial trucks waited in an hours-long line on Saturday to cross the border from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into El Paso after Texas Governor Gregg Abbott ordered state troopers to step up inspections of north-bound vehicles.
"I've been here since 3 p.m. yesterday, I still haven't been able to cross," Mexican truck driver José Alberto Marin said as he waited to reach the port of entry.
"Who knows how much longer it will take," he added, saying that he was hauling a load of lamps bound for the United States.
The commercial border crossings between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso slowed to a snail's pace after Abbott directed the Department of Public Safety on Wednesday to begin conducting "enhanced safety inspections" of vehicles at the international ports of entry into Texas.
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Well this will help supply chain problems. Maybe that's the intention, to exacerbate.
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Someone should remind the Texas law enforcement members that they're not the Gestapo and being assholes isn't helping.
Or, maybe they are and enjoy fucking up everyone's life.
Or, maybe they are and enjoy fucking up everyone's life.
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Perhaps but that is ill-considered. Much of the cross border truck traffic supports industrial activity that is partly done in Mexico and partly done in Texas. When Texas factories shut down because parts they need from Mexico haven't arrived Abbott will get some blame.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 8:56 pm Well this will help supply chain problems. Maybe that's the intention, to exacerbate.
Also, another avocado shortage? Could happen if the trucks can't get thru. Avocados have a short shelf life.
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Abbott won't get blamed by the people that matter: the morons that voted him into office.
Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Wouldn't it be federal officials who would conduct border searches, not state? Or is that just quaint?
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I dunno, this seems a lot like Abbott interfering with federal immigration policy to me
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Did Reuters make a snafu with their image description in the artice (in tweet further above):
That would be the TX - DPS ?Trucks wait in a long queue to cross into the United States, after the U.S Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced increased security checks at the international ports of entry into Texas, at the Zaragoza-Ysleta border crossing
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What has TX police to do with this, isn't it DHS and its Custom and Border Control who make the border checks? IS TX now stopping vehicles for extra inspections after crossing the border?Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 8:10 pm This is mostly going to hurt Texas businesses.
Commercial border crossings in El Paso slow to snail's pace after Texas steps up security
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/commer ... 022-04-09/
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Once the trucks clear immigration and customs and drive on TX highways they are subject to TXDOT regulations. TX law enforcement can stop them for spot inspections.RTH10260 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:20 amWhat has TX police to do with this, isn't it DHS and its Custom and Border Control who make the border checks? IS TX now stopping vehicles for extra inspections after crossing the border?Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 8:10 pm This is mostly going to hurt Texas businesses.
Commercial border crossings in El Paso slow to snail's pace after Texas steps up security
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/commer ... 022-04-09/
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Ah, but these aren't border searches, they're "vehicle safety inspections", of course.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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preview of TXexit borders
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Rotten food! Coming to a store near you!
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Future generations living in caves, eating roots, and fighting over firewood are going to wonder what happened to all those resources mentioned in the old stories.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/12 ... spections/Predicting food shortages, Sid Miller calls on Gov. Greg Abbott to stop new vehicle inspections at the border
Abbott’s new policy has resulted in hourslong delays and protester blockades at border crossings. The state’s agriculture commissioner criticized the measure as an “economy killing action.”
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called on Gov. Greg Abbott to halt his recent policy of additional commercial inspections at the border, calling the measure “political theater” and predicting it will leave grocery store shelves empty within weeks.
In an open letter addressed to the governor Tuesday, Miller said Abbott’s “economy killing action” is exacerbating already strained supply chains and causing massive produce shortages resulting in “untold losses” for Texas businesses.
“Your inspection protocol is not stopping illegal immigration,” Miller said in his letter. “It is stopping food from getting to grocery store shelves and in many cases causing food to rot in trucks — many of which are owned by Texas and other American companies. … The people of Texas deserve better!”
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Checking for illegal immigrants presumably hiding among the avocadoes and cabbage heads, while they walk past the imaginary Trumpian Wall
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Abbot trying to create the empty shelves that OAN/Fox would like to blame on Biden.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
…and the Republicans are saying “Well, duh, boy! Let’s Go Brandon!”
Re: Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas
Desantis can now thank Abbott! 10 of the migrants bussed to DC by Abbott are from Venezuela. They said they knew they were being used as a political prop but said they didn’t care because they are on their way to Miami, and it will be easier to get there from DC than the border.
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Figured as much.
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