Texas to help Trump with immigration policy
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for border restrictions and deportations that formed the bedrock of his election victory, the state that has pioneered extreme immigration crackdowns is reaching out to lend a hand.
In recent weeks, Texas leaders offered some 1,400 acres of land on the border to the federal government for construction of deportation facilities and said the state was looking to offer more. Incoming Trump administration border czar Tom Homan joined Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this past week in two Texas border cities, where he learned about the state’s border operation and visited its National Guard soldiers and state troopers.
The budding alliance comes as Abbott over the past three years has used his signature policy priority, Operation Lone Star, to challenge federal authority over immigration and push militarization of the border to new levels. The state has spent more than $11 billion to deploy thousands of National Guard and state troopers to border towns, erect barriers and create a system to jail migrants on low-level state misdemeanor charges.
The effort has had little effect on migration while facing charges of civil-rights abuses, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. But it has become a system that a Trump administration could potentially use, either hand-in-hand with the state or as an example to follow.
“This is a model we can take across the country,” Homan told troops last Tuesday.
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Actually, illegal immigration into Texas has been reduced by roughly 80 % under the Abbott policies. The current migration is now mainly in other states that border with Mexico and from Canada. Both Mexico and Canada are seeing an influx of migrants from around the world who want to get into the US. Trump does not oppose legal immigration. His wife is a legal immigrant to the US.
See also:
When Trump critics resist his illegal-migrant crackdown, remember the nightmares he’s trying to end
As the left gears up to resist President-elect Donald Trump’s coming cleanup of the Biden migrant mess, evidence of the need for it grows ever more stark — whether you want a simple, telling tale or cold, hard data.
First came the Texas State Troopers’ Thanksgiving Day rescue of a 10-year-old Salvadoran boy left for dead by smugglers in a desolate desert area in Maverick County, Texas.
How many other tots have the coyotes abandoned who weren’t lucky enough to get found?
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And:
Repelling an invasion at the border — or within the nation’s interior — is precisely the kind of mission our founders envisioned for the military.
And:
The White House has been locked in legal battles with Texas over its efforts to deter illegal immigration
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