It’s amazing what having a President dedicated to securing the border can help accomplish when he works with border state officials rather than against them.
Attorney General Ken Paxton has become the first Texas law enforcement official to sign an agreement with the Trump administration to carry out its mass deportation efforts.
On Sunday, Paxton’s office announced the move, less than two weeks after President Trump handed down an executive order authorizing state and local law enforcement entities to perform the functions of immigration officers.
The order is pursuant to section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which the White House claims allows the federal government to co-delegate “the investigation, apprehension, or detention of aliens.”
Section 287(g) was added to the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1996 as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
“On day one, President Trump took bold action to make America safe again. I am proud to be the first to join him to restore our national sovereignty, secure our border, and ensure that criminal aliens face the justice they deserve,” stated Paxton. “As the top law enforcement official in Texas, I call on all agencies and departments to join me in the fight. We will enforce the law and protect America.”
Paxton’s agreement follows a January 29 executive order by Gov. Greg Abbott instructing “all appropriate state agencies to assist federal actors working under the direction of the Trump Administration with carrying out functions under federal immigration laws.”
Two days later, Abbott stated that his office, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Texas National Guard continue to collaborate with the Trump administration on Operation Lone Star.
Abbott revealed to Breitbart on February 2 that he signed a memorandum of understanding between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the State of Texas to grant Texas National Guard personnel the authority to make immigration arrests.
The order is “effective immediately” and “boosts man power for border security,” wrote Abbott in a post on X.
It’s going to take years (at a minimum) to clean up the illegal alien border mess that the lawless Biden regime left behind. But having a Presidential Administration in office that’s willing to enforce the law is a huge start.
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“It’s going to take years (at a minimum) to clean up the illegal alien border mess that the lawless Biden regime left behind.”
As Tom Holman sorts out the hard-core criminal elements in the initial stage of deportations, the less criminally inclined remnant may become overawed by the aggressive law enforcement response and timidly depart for their place of origin.
An asymptotic outcome would result: stubborn resistance at the outset followed by mass capitulation and self-deportation.
There are vastly greater resources available to assist with the deportation of illegal aliens than were utilized to bring them here. Since problem is too big to hide, the very magnitude of the difficulty makes it more amenable to a large-scale effort by joint agencies to resolve it conclusively.
Sure, there will be a small number of illegal aliens who slip through the dragnet but the crushing burden of 30 million interlopers will have been lifted from hospitals, homeless shelters and food banks.
Housing will become more readily available for US citizens, grocery bills will decouple from “demand pull” inflation and long lines at the emergency room will be dramatically reduced.
To Tom Homan, Governor Abbot, AG Ken Paxton, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard, I wish you doughy gentlemen God Speed.
Hopefully the Justice Department will also keep a tight rein on departments participating to avoid the negative optics that resulted in shutting down the programs in the past, when some departments were violating the civil rights of Americans by conducting wholesale sweeps. North Carolina and Arizona both experienced this although I don’t know to what extent the publicity was ginned up versus accurate.