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Montana governor begs Biden to 'do his job' and secure southern border as Mexican cartels infiltrate state | |
2024-04-04 | |
[FoxNews] Gov. Greg Gianforte signed an emergency declaration Tuesday to send National Guard troops to Texas. I wonder how many advance this 'lean forward' training for their own border defense? The governor of a northern border state is taking matters into his own hands to help secure the southern border after receiving "crickets" from President Biden on a plan to resolve the crisis. Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte
"I declared an emergency so we could mobilize Montana National Guard troops to go down and fulfill a request that we got for Governor Abbott," Gianforte told Harris Faulkner on Wednesday. "I was down in Shelby Park. We saw how effective National Guard troops are at securing the border." "We're pleased to join Governor Abbott in Operation Lone Star to secure the border," he continued. "We've had enough fentanyl confiscated, literally, to kill every American in our country. It has to stop. The Biden border policy has been as effective as a screen door on a submarine. It's completely porous, and if he won't do his job, we're going to do it for him." The emergency declaration authorizes members of the National Guard to help secure the border, and they will help Texas officials beginning next week through May 12, according to the governor's office. Gianforte said Montana has been drastically affected by the border surge and issues stemming from the Mexican drug cartels, despite neighboring the Canadian border. "We are arresting Mexican cartel members here in Montana," Gianforte said. "We've seen a 78% increase in fentanyl just in the last year, and meth continues to be a problem. We don't have Montana meth, though. We have Mexican meth that is profiting the cartels and killing the citizens of our state." Gianforte confronted the president at a White House governors' meeting in February over his silence on a Republican-backed proposal to secure the border. The governor again presented Biden with the 2021 plan and said he is still waiting for a response. "I think the primary responsibility of the federal government is national security," Gianforte said. "It comes before everything else, and yet he's been sitting on his hands... Twenty-seven governors presented a 10-point plan to him two and a half years ago. I, again, handed it to him at the White House earlier this year just asking for a meeting, and it's been crickets. We've heard nothing in response." "We should have bipartisan support to secure the border," he continued. "We're a country made up of immigrants. We want immigration, but it needs to occur legally, not crossing the river in the middle of the night." Related: Montana: 2024-03-14 15 States Threaten to Sue Maine for Transgender Groomer Sanctuary Bill Montana: 2024-03-11 Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists aim to disrupt Oscars with street protest Montana: 2024-03-03 America First Legal sues FEC to force action on Hunter Biden laptop deniers during 2020 campaign Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/refsloc.php on line 44 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 26 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 39 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 43 Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 26 Related: Operation Lone Star: 2024-03-18 Report: US border patrol nabbed Hezbollah man headed to New York ‘hoping to make a bomb’ Operation Lone Star: 2024-02-17 Abbott to construct 'forward operating base' for National Guard border efforts Operation Lone Star: 2024-02-06 Body found in same Austin lake where other deceased individuals discovered in recent months Deprecated: pg_query(): Automatic fetching of PostgreSQL connection is deprecated in /var/www/html/rantburg/ajax/ngogovt.php on line 39 | |
Posted by:Skidmark |
#1 Calling on Biden to improve border security is like ordering egg rolls at the Taco Bell drive through. |
Posted by: Super Hose 2024-04-04 07:05 |