Immigration Watch International (2): Texas’s Border Crackdown Bears Fruit: 422 Million Lethal Fentanyl Doses Seized, More Than 31,000 Criminals Arrested

Monday, July 24, 2023

Texas’s Border Crackdown Bears Fruit: 422 Million Lethal Fentanyl Doses Seized, More Than 31,000 Criminals Arrested

Texas’s efforts to stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into the United States under Operation Lone Star have borne fruit, according to data provided by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who pledged to continue deploying “every strategy” available to respond to the border crisis.

Operation Lone Star started in March 2021 in response to a surge in illegal immigration, as a combined effort of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas National Guard. The operation deployed air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high-threat areas along the border in an effort to deny Mexican cartels and others the ability to smuggle people, weapons, and drugs into the country.

A little more than two years since the start of the border security initiative, Mr. Abbott on July 21 provided figures that hint at the fruits of the effort, while blaming President Joe Biden’s policies for the dire situation at the border.

The multi-agency effort has led to more than 394,200 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 31,300 criminal arrests, with reports of more than 29,100 felony charges brought, the data disclosed by Mr. Abbott show.

In the fight against deadly drugs pouring into the United States, Texas law enforcement has seized more than 422 million lethal doses of fentanyl during the border mission.

“President Biden’s open border policies created the humanitarian crisis at our southern border,” Mr. Abbott wrote on Twitter.

“Texas will continue to deploy every strategy to respond to this crisis.”

Texas has also bused nearly 30,000 illegal immigrants to a number of Democrat-led cities, both as a wake-up call to Washington and a way of fighting back against what Texas officials have said are the Biden administration’s lax border policies.

Texas has bused more than 10,400 illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., and more than 10,300 to New York City since the start of Operation Lone Star.

In September 2022, when the migrant buses from the Lone Star State first grabbed headlines, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said his state was spending about $4 billion a year on border security and that it normally spends about $400 million.

“This is a financial burden on us. But more importantly, it’s an invasion of our state,” Mr. Patrick told Fox News in an interview that aired on Sept. 17, 2022.

“They’ve been dumping people in America for a long time, a long time. And now Texas is saying: ‘We’re fighting back. We’re going to send them to your neighborhood, and we’re going to keep those buses coming until, finally, this administration wakes up.’”

Republicans have blamed the Biden administration for policies they say encourage people to undertake the perilous trek north and cross the U.S.–Mexico border illegally.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-border-crackdown-bears-fruit-422-million-lethal-fentanyl-doses-seized-over-31000-criminal-arrests-5416085

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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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Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, July 24, 2023

Texas’s Border Crackdown Bears Fruit: 422 Million Lethal Fentanyl Doses Seized, More Than 31,000 Criminals Arrested

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