By Monica Showalter, AM THINKER
Joe Biden is letting one of the largest illegal migrant caravans in history move into the U.S., with no effort to stop it.
Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, isn’t.
According to a very interesting report by Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies, the record-sized 15,000-strong caravan has run into interference from the Texas governor and his counterpart in the adjacent Mexican state of Coahuila, who had the foresight to sign an agreement in April about border security. Bensman writes:
AUSTIN, Texas — When Mexico last week granted federal humanitarian travel permits to 15,000 U.S.-bound third-country migrants who’d formed the largest caravan in Mexican history, most planned to head straight to the border to cross illegally into the Texas towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
But now those thousands of federal permit holders have collided with an unusual and wide-ranging Coahuila State police roadblock operation that is systematically halting buses carrying the migrants all over that state, detaining and deporting some, and thwarting federal government will.
Few, if any, of those thousands are finding their way over the Rio Grande into the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector. Mexican state police are blocking northbound commercial buses at the bus station in the Coahuila state capital of Saltillo, and at many other stations, and emptying migrants from trucks and vans at checkpoints on all roads leading into that state’s border cities of Piedras Negras, across from Eagle Pass, and Acuna, across from Del Rio, according to Mexican press reporting.
The migrants who thought they were a day or two away from crossing into Texas, where the Biden administration will admit most of them, are reported to be infuriated. In many cases, the state authorities are “deporting” the immigrants they catch, although it was unclear to where. The operations have sparked civil disobedience disturbances in Saltillo, protests elsewhere, and closure Tuesday of the international bridge between Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras when 100 of the caravan migrants tried to hop a train over and battled Mexican authorities who stopped them.
The migrants think they’re pretty entitled to enter the U.S. free of charge and vetting.
What happened here was that Abbott and his Mexican counterpart in Coahuila, Gov. Miguel Angel Solis, signed a security agreement two months ago to keep the border area secure.
The impetus for the agreement was Abbott’s shutdown of Texas-Coahuila border trade, with intense truck inspections that slowed commerce as Abbott’s troopers searched vehicles for evidence of migrant-smuggling.
What drew headlines at the time was Abbott’s transport of illegal migrants to Washington, D.C., but the power move on his part was in the laborious truck inspections, which were a problem for the Mexicans. The Mexican governor wanted that stopped, because it was hurting the normal economic activity of Coahuila, and he (along with three other Mexican governors, according to Bensman) signed the agreement with Abbott to get it stopped.
That’s why the roadblocks and ship-backs in Coahuila, courtesy of Mexican state police, are going strong now. The Mexican state cops aren’t putting up with these caravans from the migrants from some 150 countries at the expense of their own economy. They’re breaking these cartels up and sending the migrants back, one truck at a time.
The president of Mexico permitted their sending, and Joe Biden, of course, had planned to welcome all comers. But the two governors wanted normal life to go on, and the Mexican governor got busy with his end of the bargain to put a stop to the whole thing right then and there.
Bensman’s report is absolutely fascinating in its detail about the agreement in place that was as good as gold for breaking up the vast migrant caravans heading to El Norte.
For that, Joe Biden should thank him for saving him from a public relations disaster — which he won’t.
What we see here is an amazingly good creative effort, by two governors, to keep life normal, and illegal migrant disorder away from Texas. The Coahuila governor keeps cross-border trade in his home state. The Texas governor is spared the expense and mess of yet another border surge inundating his state. This has a rather interesting echo of how President Trump used to deal with Mexico — with direct force and action — shutting down the border until Mexico agreed to play ball on the “remain in Mexico” pact.
For Texans, this has to be a relief. There’s not a thing Joe Biden can do to stop this, and the caravan itself will be diminished in its impact with a simple solution that seems to be working, at long last getting home the message that lawlessness has some consequences for lawbreakers, too. Joe Biden could have done this, but he didn’t. If a solution can’t be done through Biden, well, Abbott and his Mexican counterparts will show how this is done. Kudos to Abbott.
@Honeybee
To a point you are quite correct. However, new politicians want what all politicians want, to win the next election. To hold the feet of both the long term and new politicos to the fire, the public needs to actively participate in the local political structure at the precinct level and thereby gain access and influence over the politicos at the local, state and national levels. It is not enough to throw the bums out and pick new people who will quickly become new bums to be thrown out as this would be a very short view of the reforms that must be pursued to end the rule by the selected politicians. The state and national policos are very dependent upon the precinct officers and staff who help set up events, fund raisers, public meet and greets, staffing poll watchers etc. Consequently, the precinct members can shield the politicos from having to answer the hard questions, or they can do a great deal more to hold them accountable to the public. The precinct have direct access to the politicians and can wield a definite influence over their viability in subsequent elections.
Hence, the politicos are very dependent upon a supportive precinct political structure. The Rep precincts have been largely staffed with Bush Rinos devotees, which is why MAGA has had so much trouble maintaining a faithful support from the Rep politicos. If these local precinct positions are not replaced with MAGA representatives, you would be quite correct in presuming that changing the politicians will accomplish very little. It calls for reformers at the top supported by a reform structure at the precinct level. The US must take back control of their political environment at the national/state level, but this must be accoplished in coordination with the conquest of the precincts as well, to prevent the new reformers being controlled by the local Rino activists.
Dan Schultz has been pushing people towards taking control of the precincts for exactly this reason. You can read more about the strategy he proposes here:
https://loneconservative.com/2021/07/07/dan-schultzs-precinct-strategy-is-creating-a-new-grassroots-movement/
He has also been on Bannon’s show many times. Gen. Flynn among others are also strongly supportive of Schult’s strategy as well.
The problem poloni1986 is that once reformers gain office they become entrenched politicians.
@Honeybee
Oh, I understand this perfectly. I just honestly don’t care what the politicians want. Leaving the input to local authorities which seems to be the new standard of Texas justice is how the six counties came to throw the election in six states in a coordinated fashion. Using such tactics as Texas seems to model for her citizens would see the control of any state to be based around the premise of which locality could draft the greatest cheating campaign. It is the very antithesis of consent of the governed, rather it is the consent to the fraudulent.
The rule of law should be equatable to every state, every locality, every language, and every culture. I don’t accept that Texas is too big to be legitimate, nor that New York is too dense, nor that California is too diverse. I do accept that politicians would have us shut up and accept their selections over our consent, but I am of a mind to challenge such tragedies as this vision of Texas justice, which will only continue to support one tyranny or another over the public’s will.
Yes Sébastien, the movie sums up Texas politics perfectly. What peloni1986 does not understand is that politicians do not want “transparency”. The Uvalde police dept is a good example of political patronize.
If someone uses my windmill for target practice I would take great and immediate offense.
P.S. It is pronounced U Val Day, not U vol dee.
@Honeybee Fun. Great score.https://youtu.be/Z1V0fG-0FS4
Sebastien, Darlin, Western Democrazy is close. More like a democratic poker game, 5 card draw.
@Honeybee So, would you describe Texas as a “Western Democracy?”
peloni1986 Nice try, but it won’t work in Texas. The State of Texas is huge and is good for East Texas and will not work for West Texas, North or South. Areas that wish to govern themselves. A diverse mix of language and culture. Strong suspicion of politicians and outsiders with new ideas. But Bless yore lit’ole heart for trying.
As for the name Texas. I was named after a tribe of Amerindians or from the Spanish work for roofs. I seem some tribe had village with distinctive roofs.
@Honeybee
With respect, this is far from true. I suspect you are referencing Mayra Flores’ victory in a dominantly Dem district. The Republican capture of a largely Dem district is completely irrelevant to the issue of electoral capture and endemic voter fraud in a Rep controlled state.
In a Rep controlled district where a Trump loyalist, Bianca Gracia, was challenging an establishment candidate, she was awarded fewer votes after all votes were counted than she actually had going into election day this past March. She began with 8008 votes from pre-election day tally, and ended with 4924 total after all votes were counted. I don’t think that is a Texas approach to math, it’s just an obvious sign of electoral corruption.
https://twitter.com/BiancaForTexas/status/1499367162661715974s
Then there is the interesting thing about this new ruling in Texas where the State AG is prohibited from investigating election fraud without the local prosecutor’s permission. So the locals who run the elections, and have the closest jurisdiction in handling both the election and the investigation of irregularities, have no State oversight?? Of course, this ruling was handed down in Dec. 2021 in a 7-1 ruling by an all Rep court. This judicial edict is a transparent and politically rigged arrangement to prevent any state prosecution of broad election fraud demonstrates the wagon circling by the Reps to block any election year pressure on the State AG to pursue the 2020 election from actually producing any results .
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/15/ken-paxton-election-prosecute-court/
The final candle to place on this cake supporting more than a fair share of suspicion of corruption is that if the Reps had nothing to hide, they would pursue election inspections of their election systems to shore them up and prevent what happened in NV/AZ/GA/MI/PA/WI from happening in their own states. Of the 23 states that have Rep one party control, not a single state has permitted this to take place, not one, and this includes Texas.
Of course, since you are a local, you must have some knowledge of these matters, and I would be curious of your input on them if you are familiar with them.
I have a great deal of fondness for Texas, and her people, and I had a connection sometime back with the state, so don’t take it as a reproach upon the state whose name means Friend, and I see it as such. It is simply that Texas has been corrupted by the same bipartisan corruption well built into the election process that stole the 2020 election. Every state in the country is suspect. Some have more obvious irregularities as I have noted here for Texas, but election transparency is not about Reps winning elections as with the victory of Flores. It is about irradiating the multifaceted practice of selection of the elected rather than the consent of the governed. Don’t forget that the Dems stole the election, but the Reps knowingly certified the Dems election theft, knowing that they were surrendering to the Dems, a one party rule over the country by a collection of Radicals. The corruption is bipartisan in nature and practice. Perhaps not everyone is corrupt, but certainly, everyone is suspect, particularly if they obstruct a close inspection of the 2020 fraudulent election results.
peloni1986. Sugar, Texas is in no need of reformation. We just primaried a lovely Mexican American Lady for the Republican ticket.
Yes, G_d bless Texas…
Now do election reform, which begins with election inspection, for which we are still waiting 18 months after the 2020 election fraud. By forgoing any legitimate inspection to provide full transparency of the dilemmas surrounding the election fraud, it undermines every legitimate aspect of those governing. So, whereas I gladly applaud Texas for doing this, and Florida for doing that, we really need to just lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the 2020 elections in these solidly Rep states to display the presence or absence of electoral shenanigans that have been found in the 6 contested states. Failing to do so, does raise the question for the relative governors, what are they afraid of revealing.
Without establishing a legitimate and transparent election process, all solutions proposed and pursued by govt officials, even those policies which honestly benefit the citizenry, are sourced in arbitrary authority, deficient in the seal of the consent of the governed, which is the very mark of all legitimacy relating to representative govt.
With this in mind, it may prove elucidating when the geocoding data for these states are examined to determine at least part of the answer as to the pregnant hesitancy of more than half the US states, which have a republican held political control over their state…that is, unless further use of the geocoding data is precluded with the proposed legislation making such revelations illicit and illegal.
When crimes are not criminal, the criminals are left to label what are crimes.
G-D BLESS TEXAS