Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden’s ‘Open Border Policies

Bob Price6 Mar 2021

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the state’s National Guard and State Troopers to respond to the growing border crisis.

Governor Abbott announced Operation Lone Star “to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas” on Saturday. The operation will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with the National Guard, Abbott said. He is ordering the deployment of air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas.

“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” the governor said in a written statement Saturday evening. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”

Abbott issued the deployment order following a meeting with Texas DPS Director Colonel Steve McCraw. The two discussed strategies to increase safety and security along the border.

The announcement follows a massive increase in illegal border crossings since President Joe Biden took office in January.

Earlier this week, Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) announced that Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 10,000 migrants in the Rio Grande Valley Sector during a seven-day period ending on Wednesday, Breitbart Texas reported.

“We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” Congressman Cuellar said in a written statement. “Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.”

In Brownsville, Texas, city officials said that six percent of the migrants being released at the bus station to obtain transportation into the U.S. interior are testing positive for COVID-19, Breitbart Texas reported. The Brownsville official said they do not have the authority to prevent those who test positive from boarding buses to travel into the U.S. interior. A worker at the bus station told Fox News they cannot ask passengers for proof of coronavirus test results before transit. Cuellar added, “I urge the Biden Administration to listen and work with the communities on the southern border who are dealing with the surge of migrants.”

I’m extremely skeptical that a Governor who deprived his own people of their most basic liberties, with mandates backed by baseless “science” which contradict the actual facts, who has made no effort to inform his people about the actual nature of C19 and relevant political activity, has any interest in effectively defending the sovereignty and prosperity of his people by securing the border against foreign infiltration. I do however wholeheartedly expect Abbott to loudly deploy a border farce, no typo, which will be poorly organized and intentionally ineffective. The future of America’s political elite and oligarchs depends upon divide and conquer, and that largely depends upon an increasingly radicalized and increasingly numerous minority who will fight their culture war as well as their electoral war, and if need be revolutionary war. Abbott is no less interested in illegal immigration than Biden is. Without controversy and friction, the people could unify and set their sights on the actual problem, of which Abbott holds a prominent role.

“Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reportedly asked for volunteers from agencies within the department to help with an ‘overwhelming’ surge of illegal immigrants ... Mayorkas pointed to an idea from the Trump administration to rally 900 employees to help contend with a 2019 surge, a move which was criticized by Democrats at the time. Volunteers aided with care for immigrants, such as driving them to Border Patrol stations, performing medical assessments, and taking migrants to hospitals.“
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-requests-backup-volunteers-to-support-border

DHS publicly seeks volunteers from within the agency to aid the infiltrators, it appears. More political theater.