Immigration Watch International (2): Why Democrats Are Fuming Over Abbott's Plan to Stop Illegal Aliens

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Why Democrats Are Fuming Over Abbott's Plan to Stop Illegal Aliens

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) began rolling out the "marine barrier installation" to discourage illegal aliens from entering the country through the southern border.

As part of Operation Lone Star, the Republican announced his plan to place large orange buoys along the Rio Grande to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants in Texas.

"New marine barrier installation on the Rio Grande begins today. Texas DPS is overseeing the project in Eagle Pass. More to come," Abbott tweeted.

Texas officials praised Abbott's plan, saying that the buoys would make it difficult for illegal aliens to cross the river.

"Anytime they get in that water, it's a risk to the migrants. This is the deterrent from even coming in the water," Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw said.

The inflatable balls spin when one tries to climb them, "making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border," Abbott's office said in a press release.

However, liberal Left-wingers have criticized the governor's plan— claiming it is "unconstitutional."

The American Civil Liberties Union in Texas protested at the border earlier this week, holding a sign that read "defund the wall" and said a prayer for the river.

An attorney for the Left-wing group told CNN that "the latest in a chain of gifts from the state to private contractors to fuel the governor's manufactured crisis at the border."

He claimed the buoys are a "blight on Texas's moral conscience."

A Texas kayaking company filed a lawsuit against Abbott, claiming the governor's plan will hurt his business.

According to his lawsuit, Jessie Fuentes—Epi's Canoe & Kayak Team owner— said the buoys would cause his company to suffer "imminent and irreparable harm."

However, in response, Abbott vowed to fight back against the lawsuit.

"We will see you in court. And I don't think the Travis Co. Court will be the end of it. This is going to the Supreme Court. Texas has a constitutional right to secure our border," Abbott tweeted.

Since entering office, President Joe Biden's open border policies have caused Eagle Pass to see the second-highest number of illegal migrant crossings this fiscal year, with about 270,000 encounters.

https://townhall.com//tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/07/09/why-democrats-are-fuming-over-abbotts-plan-to-stop-illegal-aliens-n2625478

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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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Why Democrats Are Fuming Over Abbott's Plan to Stop Illegal Aliens

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