Immigration Watch International (2): Rural Counties in Texas Are Declaring Local Immigration 'Disasters’

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Rural Counties in Texas Are Declaring Local Immigration 'Disasters’

Several counties in Texas are declaring a “local state of disaster” over the growing number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and entering their communities.

The Texas Tribune reported this week that the counties that declare a local disaster due to the border crisis could receive funding and support through Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) Operation Lone Star program, a border security initiative in the state between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department.

One county in particular, Hopkins County, sits more than 500 miles from the southern border and an eight-hour drive away, the Tribune noted. County commissioners declared a state of disaster in the county over an “invasion” of migrants flooding into their community since President Biden took office.

“The health, safety and welfare of Hopkins County residents are under an imminent threat of disaster from the unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling coming across the U.S. border from Mexico,” the declaration reportedly said.

Kinney County, which is between Del Rio and Eagle Pass, was the first to do this in April 2021. Since then, over 30 counties have done so, according to the Tribune. Afterwards, this allows the counties to apply for support through Operation Lone Star for their law enforcement.

Townhall has covered how Abbott began sending illegal immigrants on buses to “sanctuary cities” led by Democrats, such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, and the latest, Philadelphia to share the burden of Biden's open border policies.

"Since April, Texas' busing strategy has successfully provided much-needed relief to our border communities overwhelmed by the historic influx of migrants caused by President Biden's reckless open border policies," Abbott said in a statement announcing the busload of migrants being sent to Philadelphia.

"Until the Biden Administration does its job and provides Texans and the American people with sustainable border security, Texas will continue doing more than any other state in the nation's history to defend against an invasion along the border, including adding more sanctuary cities like Philadelphia as drop-off locations for our busing strategy,” he added.

According to CBS News, Texas officials have sent over 13,000 illegal immigrants to New York City and Chicago. As Julio covered, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sent some of the migrants to towns outside the city without warning.

Townhall covered how Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, on two occasions, asked the Pentagon to send in the National Guard to help process the migrants that were sent to the nation’s capital. The Pentagon denied her requests.

In an interview, Bowser then said that D.C. is “not Texas” and cannot accommodate the migrants.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2022/12/02/border-counties-are-declaring-local-disasters-over-immigration-crossings-n2616663

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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