Over the objection of the Eagle Pass mayor, governor Abbott seized a public park that borders the Rio Grande river. 
National Guard Showdown
In a first of a kind showdown, the New York Post reports Texas Gov. Abbott seizes Eagle Pass border park without warning to combat migrant crisis, mayor claims.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took control of a public park in a border city plagued by illegal immigration without warning on Wednesday, its mayor alleged Thursday.
Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas said the state seized Shelby Park, erecting fences to keep out citizens — and even federal border agents — without any notice as part of Abbott’s emergency declaration to combat the migrant crisis.
Shelby Park, which abuts the Rio Grande, has been flooded with migrants crossing into Texas via the dangerous river.
“That is not a decision that we agreed to,” Salinas said in an impassioned speech Thursday. “This is not something that we wanted. This is not something that we asked for as a city.”
Texas Blocks Federal Border Agents From Processing Migrants
The showdown is not only with the Eagle Pass mayor. CBS reports Texas blocks federal border agents from processing migrants in Eagle Pass public park
After seizing control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas National Guard units deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott have prevented Border Patrol agents from entering the area, the federal officials said. Border Patrol has used the park in recent weeks to hold migrants in an outdoor staging area before they are transported for further processing, including last month, when illegal crossings soared to record levels.
Earlier Thursday, Texas state officials prevented Border Patrol boats from patrolling that area, one of the officials added, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
In a filing early Friday with the Supreme Court, the Justice Department described the extraordinary standoff between Texas and the federal government.
“Texas’s new actions,” the Justice Department said, “demonstrate an escalation of the State’s measures to block Border Patrol’s ability to patrol or even to surveil the border and be in a position to respond to emergencies.”
Under federal law, Border Patrol has a legal responsibility to process migrants on U.S. soil and determine whether to detain them, transfer them to another agency, deport them or release them into the country, pending a court hearing. The international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico is located in the middle of the Rio Grande in Texas.
US Justice Department Files Suit Against Texas
The Biden administration immediately logged a suit straight to the US Supreme Court, the Department of Homeland Security v. State of Texas.
… Border Patrol learned that Texas National Guard members had begun erecting new concertina wire barriers, adding to others along an approximately 2.5-mile stretch of the border at issue in this case. App., infra, 3a. Texas also erected new fencing, located further inland than the original concertina wire. Ibid. That fencing further restricts Border Patrol’s ability to reach the river in particular areas. The relevant stretch includes the area of Shelby Park, which contains the boat ramp from which Border Patrol routinely launches the patrol boats it uses on this stretch of the Rio Grande.
Texas’s new actions since the government’s filing demonstrate an escalation of the State’s measures to block Border Patrol’s ability to patrol or even to surveil the border and be in a position to respond to emergencies. Those actions have also changed the situation on the ground from the account in prior filings in this Court, including Texas’s opposition.
Abbott Statements
“Texas is holding the line at our southern border with miles of additional razor wire and anti-climb barriers to deter and repel the record-high levels of illegal immigration invited by President Biden’s reckless open border policies,” Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze said in a statement.
“Texas will continue to deploy Texas National Guard soldiers, DPS troopers, and more barriers, utilizing every tool and strategy to respond to President Biden’s ongoing border crisis.”
Wow.
Is Money the Problem?
On December 30, I asked Sanctuary Cities Seek More Money for Migrants, But is Money the Problem?
10,000 Per Day
The sanctuary cities seek more money to address the migrant issue.
New York City Mayor whines the problem will cost $12 billion. Denver’s mayor said the problem will consume 10 percent of its budget.
But what about Texas? On many days in December, there were 10,000 or more illegal entries.
NYC Mayor Issues Emergency Executive Order
On December 28, I noted New York City Mayor Issues Emergency Executive Order to Stem Migrant Arrivals
We have now reached a breaking point. Texas is in a showdown with the Biden administration and this case is headed to the Supreme Court.
Hmm….good for Texas. Somebody has to draw a line. A hard one. If you lack borders….you are not a nation.
It wont matter whites will be the minority soon.if not already in many states. The Jews won’t allow whites to rule but will.use their money for Israel. I have great respect for European technology and capitalism but not their racist brutality.The conquest of Africa is.just one. Even to this day, Africa is torn by puppet dictators and tribes divided to fight among themselves which the the British did on purpose. Houthi and the Blowfish!
It is true . To bad whites don’t respect anyones borders. You are living on land you stole.
Stop destabilizing latin America. Boycotts of Venezuela and Cuba and funding right wing govts that steal the economic resources of the country leave the people with nothing. They immigrate because of this and it’s the USA that’s followo.g teddy Roosevelt big stick policy regarding latin America. Bay of.pigs, mining Nicaragua’s ports to overthrow govt and the racist brutality of the fake white Jew converts of Israel among other crimes of white societies. Change your heart and ask for forgiveness.
Note to Governor Fatso in Illinois – weather in Caracas, Venezuela: high 82 deg F, low 62 deg F.
You see what white civilization and the west are all about. The brutality of the gaza bombing is like the Texas racists. They want to kill ,dehumanize, and steal.
Mish, please block this troll fool.
lol
The governor is a insult to all retards.
Texas hubris is white supremacy, murder,slavery and colonialism. Even after the whites get rid of all minorities they just would invade other countries.to to support it’s economy. It’s a no win situation for non whites.
What’s your Street address? Opps, you forgot to say you just wanted to bitch. I’ll volunteer to drive the first bus load to your place.
You are using all the current Marxist buzz words.
Why is it that someone else has to do the Biden administration’s work for them?
“In a filing early Friday with the Supreme Court, the Justice Department described the extraordinary standoff between Texas and the federal government.”
The DOJ should be holding Biden accountable for not enforcing the law. Abbott shouldn’t have to step in to enforce the law.
During the time of the Alamo there was not 50 Civilian Sombreros in all of Texas. When Mexico was created after the Spanish Leaders of the territory were deposed: most of the Spanish territory in what is now The United States Of America was just a place on a map, not an area occupied by Mexicans.
The attempts to return US territory to Mexicans, through illegal invasion and population expansion through high birthrates is a specious liberal argument. It fails to address the dislocation of the original inhabitants of North America…… The Native American Indians.
The Native Americans don’t want to live as they used to before the Europeans arrived – not one. End of story.
This is very off topic but I’m curious where the condemnation of the US bombing of Yemen is? This seems like an unbelievable overreach and endless war the US is involving itself in.
Mark Dice needs to visit one of those elite college campuses and ask, “for $1,000,000 can you point to Yemen on the map?”
It’s a reasonable suppression of the lawless attacks on international shipping
You enemies-of-the-West think all you have to do is write some B.S. and everyone adopts your radical and irrational ideology.
If you like Yemen so much go ahead and move there.
Mish is coming to his sense and finally converting into Republican!
lol! IT MUST BE ELECTION Year!
God bless the Houthis!
God, please give David cancer and let him suffer a painful death.
jojo works for Israeli intelligence.
Terrorists unite. Yemen failed state.
white people are.the.biggest terrorists. Blind psychopathy.
whites stole this land by gun powder and the Latinos will steal it.back by birthdate.
Yep. I’m descended from Hernan Cortes and a lot of other conquistadors. Who originally stole the land. (Well, the only difference between the Nazis and Aztecs is that the Nazis had cooler looking helmets. So perhaps ‘liberation’ is a better word than ‘conquest’ even though not all the conquistadors were saints, that’s for sure). You have to read history, though, to know that. So, the Latinos will have to give it back to the full blooded Indians.
Seriously, large sections of Mexico were in revolt against the Mexican government throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. California, like Texas, would have broken away within a few years….. You read the names of the dead at the Alamo, most are Spanish, who were willing to die to be free. If anything, California and Texas should conquer Mexico City.
Probably the best book to read is The Conquest of Mexico, by William Prescott. The New World equivalent to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon, except Prescott cites his sources. Both are not b7 20th century standards ‘scientific’ historians, as if that was an insult. There was a story to tell, they told it with great insight and brilliant prose. Really, 90% of the information is in the foot notes, assuming you can read Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Greek, Aztec, Arabic and one or two other Meso American languages, which of course Prescott could even though he was blind.
The second book is the somewhat lesser known Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Dias Del Castillo. Older Spanish, not a well researched masterpiece like Prescotts ( he was a foot solider and too busy trying to stay alive to do more than take a few notes here and there). But his, Ixtlilxochitl’s (prince of a ‘Switzerland” republic that rebelled agains the Aztecs) are the only first hand accounts of what happened, aside from Cortes’s long letters meditating on his hand in the present day suffering of the Indians. (Long story short, he conquered for gold and the true religion, and eventually, to eradicate Aztec rule which as a product of Western Civilization and Christianity, appalled him to his core. We call in genocide, now. The hope was that the Indians, who were to the Aztecs like Jews to the Nazis would to convert to Catholicism, as they did. Converts could not be enslaved in Spanish domains, 350 years before the Emancipation Proclamation to give some perspective. In the end, whatever else you want to say, when Cortez finally returned with 2000 men after his original army of 600 had ben at least 75% wiped out in a single night, and there was the slight change he might win, every single province in the Aztec empire revolted and send him troops. That sort of casts a pall on the PC view of the Aztecs being humane and advanced rulers. Yeah. Sure. That is the one big undeniable fact about the end of the Aztec empire. Interestingly, when he arrived back in Spain Cortez prayed literally for nine days and nine nights, on his knees, nonstop, for the sins he and the men he led had committed. Same chapel were Columbus gave thanks for his first return from the new world. Afterwards, Cortez was greatly upset about the mistreatment of Indians although he never had any doubt they were better off under Spanish rule, which I think is a very valid point with a small number of exceptions. There are sickos everywhere. God must weep.
Cortez landed at Vera Cruz with 600 men, about 20 crossbows, 17 horse, and around two dozen muskets which were less than useless. At no point did the guns make a significant difference in the fighting. They made noise, that was about it. The difference was that 1) the Spaniards were experienced soldiers, a lot of them, having fought the Moors until 1492. 2) they had steel weapons, a big plus 3) even though numbered perhaps 100 to 1 the Indians were used to battles where capture of captives to be sacrificed was the main point. What do you know, the Spaniards had the notion, from fighting the Moors for eight centuries, that within the laws of war you killed your enemy since it was a clash of cultures and civilizations (Gaza, 2023, anyone?). And, last of all, they really did believe that they had God on their side against a civilization which had become debased and ‘gone over to the dark side”. It was a war of liberation with, probably, good loot to be had from the oppressors.
Of course, this interpretion, er, I mean, factual freaking account, carries no weight with Mexican scholars or PC academia in the US today. Partly for racist reasons they can’t grasp the idea that an oppressive society that sacrificed 1000s of innocents a year to highly questionable gods (not to Queztlcoatl, though, he’d return and stop this badness which I think means people deep down knew it was deep wrong) could possibly exist. Certainly the White Man was responsible for all the bad stuff in the New World. Which is nonsense.
Sorry about the length of the rant but there were some things that had to be said.
Very interesting – thanks
I guess I pissed the whites lol.
Bigots often piss the right sort of person off.
So Mish related to all this- after all these years I finally have given up and decided to embrace the Assholes Anonymous organization since they at least, understand how these evil woke group of assholes are really taking down America!
Abbot refused to support Trump. He could have taken control of the situation when Trump was in office. He did nothing. He was also way behind the nation on removing mask mandates. My town here in TX said enough early on and did not enforce it. He said nothing. Just looked away. This border defense by him is a sham. He does not care. All political posturing.
Abbot is just another Scumbag Texas RINO in the Bush Cornyn tradition. Texas has a big problem in being unable to ferret out these RINO Vermin.
Looks like the Latinos “La Raza” are finally reconquering (the reconquista) of the lands the Americans stole from them & that they, in turn, stole from the Native Americans. There were 62.5 million Native Americans when Columbus “discovered” this land and were systematically eradicated.
No evidence for that estimate. No tribal urban areas, no towns, no bridges or roads, few real structures. Real estimate of tribal populations, three to five million.
Abbott is showboating and doesn’t have a leg to stand on in court. GOP – the party of “law & order” has become the party of criminality & insurrection.
Wow, so law and order is violating your oath of office and letting 30 or so million ILLEGAL Invaders overrun our Borders.
Your either disingenuous, or outright evil JECO.
Call it what you want. It’s 2024. Not 1493. This is plain & simple and invasion.
The Governor is doing his job. Know one cares that you do not like it.
You know the gravity of situation when even a despicable RINO swine like Abbott finally forced by the outrage of the Citizens to finally step up like he should’ve done 2 years ago.
Both political parties often say they are against illegal immigration but for over 40 years it has been an uncontrollable issue. The laws and resources are in place to stop it but both parties turn their heads. Why? Cheap labor.
And Voters.
Why aren’t all the illegals being bused directly to Washington DC?
Seroiusly, because votes from their home states is what Congress cares about. They don’t give a damn about DC. If you want to put pressure on Congress you have to dump illegals in states that actually send reps and senators to congress. DC already has enough homelessness that a few tens of thousands of illegals on the street won’t make that big a difference. Which is a bad way to treat illegals. And homeless.
This is and example of leadership and problem solving
Democrat Lawmaker Admits on Camera that They are Importing 3rd World Illegals to Stay in Power
https://revolver.news/2024/01/stunning-dem-lawmaker-admits-on-camera-importing-third-world-illegals-to-stay-in-power/
While I applaud Abbott’s efforts why wasn’t this done 3 years ago. 3 years of literally hundreds of thousands pouring over the border every month, and now he decides enough is enough.
Um, because it’s not a governor’s job to enforce federal immigration rules? And now that Abbot has finally decided to take it upon himself anyway, he’s met with nothing but grief and lawsuits from the Biden administration.
“Um, because it’s not a governor’s job to enforce federal immigration”
Yes, I’m aware, but that doesnt reflect reality in this situation.
Again, why wait three years to figure out that….. “well Biden isn’t gonna doing anything about this so I will”?
It was apparent that this was going to happen even before House Plant Potato Man was inaugurated.
Exactly! I agree 100%. And why hasn’t Mayorkas been impeached for that matter, like at least 20 years ago.
It’s all a big clown show joke.
They figure they have enough now. Like 30 million ignorant docile sheeple that are going to be cheap labor and help shore up & mitigate the SSA & Medicare Ponzi Schemes. At least most are hard working Catholic Family oriented folks. Still, they will never really integrate into what’s left of American Culture because there is simply a human deluge coming across. Good news is: this will bite Brandon and his Fascist Party right in their ass come Nov 3rd. Although they will just steal it like they did the last two times.
Just to be clear here, I’m 100% against illegal migration. My Ancestors fought in the Texas Revolution, so I have a dog in this hunt. They also fought in the American Revolution.
I guess the Consolation prize is that these “immigrants” are mostly from a Christian Culture and not non integrative Muslims who wish the destruction of all things American.
A Sumpter moment?
I highly doubt it. Especially given the previous outcome.
Not to mention the utter havoc the event you are suggesting would cause. You want an instant depression or worse, civil war would do it.
Any truck drivers, guys with ladder rack vans, heavy equipment operators, anyone with a toolbox…feeling a 2 week case of Covid coming on? If so, please stay inside and do … nothing. Be safe, after all, we’re all in this together!
These immigrants will be fast tracked into voting status. That is the reason the dems opened the gates. This is treason.
Democrat Lawmaker Admits on Camera that They are Importing 3rd World Illegals to Stay in Power
https://revolver.news/2024/01/stunning-dem-lawmaker-admits-on-camera-importing-third-world-illegals-to-stay-in-power/
Immigrants mostly end up in urban areas. All urban residents lean more blue, immigrants typically lean even more blue.
From a long term political perspective, team blue is using immigration to buy future votes in states like Texas where there is no other way to break the red dominance.
Short term, there is a risk that some blue cities will turn more red if immigration causes too many local issues.
If anyone really wanted to help immigrants and reduce immigration, they would figure out how to promote stability and safety in their home countries. Immigration is hazardous. People aren’t doing it for fun. They’re doing it because their home countries are flaming piles.
“This case is headed to the Supreme Court.”
A rotting corpse being devoured by maggots. One side cheering for the corpse, the other cheering for the maggots.
Prediction: 9-0 USG
Uniparty leaders who support illegal immigration are criminals – in violation of the law – and traitors violating our national sovereignty and security.
They should be tried as such.
Texas should also sue the Federal government for dereliction of duty and seek restitution for their cost.
If one “wanted” to destabilize a country, this seems like a pretty good way to do it. One has to ask the question, who are the DEM’s serving with this looney border policy ? You and I at all ? Nope.
Are there really any rational democrats out there that actually think this whole open border is good for our country? It is tearing it apart. Biden is an ass. Not to mention all the fentanyl flowing in. Stop the madness. Please.
There are arguments FOR an open border. Those arguments are so bad, that in a era of DEI, transgender promotion, and all the rest, they cannot be spoken out loud without serious backlash.
I’m just guessing here but I wonder if money isn’t somehow involved.
Yes, Soros has been funding the invasion for a long time.
Glenn Beck documented his money to a Mexican NGO in Chicago that would send wires to a guy in southern Mexico who would hand out the cash.
Now they are flying in Africans to Mexico.
Democrat Lawmaker Admits on Camera that They are Importing 3rd World Illegals to Stay in Power
https://revolver.news/2024/01/stunning-dem-lawmaker-admits-on-camera-importing-third-world-illegals-to-stay-in-power/
Could Abbott be a candidate in the next presidential election?
It isn’t enough. Texas has the right as a state to protect its boarders and should bring in heavy artillery if necessary to repel the invaders. If the federation doesn’t like it, they can pound sand.
“Texas has the right as a state to protect its boarders..”
Assuming you’re referring to borders….: It doesn’t. It would if it seceeded( nudge, nudge…) But closable borders are national contructs. Not state ones. As much as many there would like to, Arizona can’t close their borders to stem the tide of invaders from California.
Nor to Californians potentialy transiting on the way to Texas. Ditto Texas and US Federally accepted migrants potentially transiting to San Francisco. Or even ones intending to stay in Texas.
It could very well be a good idea to let states handle their own immigration, leaving the Feds out of it. But it would take an awful lot of changes to the nation state everything centric country and world we currently live in.
Although one can never underesteimate anyone in power in the current #dumbage; it’s hard to believe even Abbot being dumb enough to not recognise something so obvious. Chances are its mainly a stunt to shore up GOP credentials for a national run, once Trump is out of the way.
Each State does have the right to protect their borders. Since all rights not called out in the Constitution reside with the Sate(s), where does the US Constitution deny the States the right of self-defense? Remember, this is not Americans crossing an internal State border. This is illegal non-citizens crossing an international border.
“This is illegal non-citizens crossing an international border.”
The international border is, as per it’s moniker, a border between nations. Not between sub-national states. That this particular one arbitrarily happens to geographically coincide with the Texas state border for some part of it’s length, doesn’t somehow make US national border policing a matter for Texas.
I hear you on the Constitution. But no one cares about that anymore. In practice, our particular dystopian era is one in which nation states are granted complete dominion over pretty much everything and everyone, especially borders. They can overrule both The Pope, The UN and Texas on any matter of international concern.
The Feds are also the only ones who can determine whether someone is in the US “illegally” or not. Some 5 tear old may arrive at the Texas barbed wire with a posse openly calling for him to be ritually sacrificed in a Satanic ritual in hot pursuit. In which case, The US would, I suspect, grant the poor sap asylum. Meaning, by the time he gets to the Texas border situated a theoretical infinitesimal fraction of an inch past the US national one, he is no longer an “illegal.”
What Texas should do, is secede. The United States haven’t been a club worth being a member of, for decades running by now. It’s nothing more than a joke and an insult. Then Texans can police their own borders, and all else, as they see fit.
How can we expand this program across the entire southern United States? What took Abbott so long?
What took so long? There must be more to the story. I always start by asking who benefits financially.