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2022-11-19 -Land of the Free
Texas to send military armored personnel carriers to the border to escalate enforcement: Report
[FoxNews] The move comes days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott invoked an 'invasion' clause to step up border enforcement.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border mission will soon include armored personnel carriers as he steps up enforcement, days after invoking an "invasion" clause of both the U.S. Constitution and Texas Constitution to combat ongoing and overwhelming illegal immigration in the state.

The Texas Tribune reported that the Texas Military Department issued the order as part of Operation Lone Star. The National Guard will soon deploy 10 M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border, the publication said.

Around 50 soldiers will be trained to operate the APC's, small tracked vehicles designed to carry infantry troops in combat zones alongside tanks, while state officials will identify 10 positions to station them along the southern border.

"These actions are part of a larger strategy to use every available tool to fight back against the record-breaking level of illegal immigration," the department said in a statement. "The Texas National Guard is taking unprecedented measures to safeguard our border and to repel and turn-back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally."

Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021 in a joint effort between the National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to combat illegal immigration and crime at the border.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 07:48|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 Now Texas Governor Abbott sends TANKS to the border after threatening to send gunboats - as Republican invokes invasion clause to deal with migrants flooding over border
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 09:20||   2022-11-19 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll give it another week. Biden will attempt to 'Federalize' the Texas Guard and send in WOKE Regular Army generals and FBI enforcement goons.

This could get very interesting.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-19 09:22||   2022-11-19 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Typical fake hysteria from The Daily Fail.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2022-11-19 10:30||   2022-11-19 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Daily Mail: we are respectable source for news and updates with layers of editors and a well of knowledge.

Also Daily Mail: Tanks.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-19 10:35||   2022-11-19 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Also Daily Mail: Tanks.

They can't help it. They're journalists, bless their hearts.

Hey, what if we installed a border collie brain in a Boston Dynamics Spot? (weapons optional) Cry havoc and release the robot dogs of war!
Posted by SteveS 2022-11-19 10:56||   2022-11-19 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Will they have M-2s mounted on these vehicles?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-11-19 12:05||   2022-11-19 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Post LRADs at each of the crossing points on a pedestal and the mass migration will stop immediately. Immigration enforcement has devolved from criminal enforcement to essentially tackle football to now, just meaningless processing and entry. There are over five million NEW illegals in the past two years, added to at least 20 million existing one, and the docket for deportation hearings, which each is eligible once inside CONUS will take centuries to clear at best.

(A long-range acoustic device (LRAD) produces a 30 degree cone of audible sound in frequencies within the human hearing spectrum (20 Hz – 20 kHz). An LRAD was used by the crew of the cruise ship Seabourn Spirit in 2005 to deter pirates who chased and attacked the ship. More commonly this device and others of similar design have been used to disperse protesters and rioters in crowd control efforts. [WIKI quote])
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-11-19 12:53||   2022-11-19 12:53|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Frank G 2022-11-19 12:54||   2022-11-19 12:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Massive group of migrants hits Texas border as end of Title 42 looms
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 13:30||   2022-11-19 13:30|| Front Page Top

#10 how about a few apache-64 ?
Posted by irish rage boy 2022-11-19 13:49||   2022-11-19 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 LRADs are nice and all, but have you ever seen what the GAU8-A Avenger does to a human body? One strafing run on a column of the invading hordes would stop every bit of the attack.
Posted by Lowspark 2022-11-19 13:50||   2022-11-19 13:50|| Front Page Top

#12  Typical fake hysteria from The Daily Fail.

Hyperbole doesn't change the facts.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 13:50||   2022-11-19 13:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Some British may still be sensitive to 'tanks in the street'.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 14:39||   2022-11-19 14:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Makes little difference what personnel and equipment are on the border if ROE don’t allow any action.
Posted by Glenmore  2022-11-19 16:02||   2022-11-19 16:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Tell that to the residents and nearby denizens of the Fulda Gap.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-19 23:48||   2022-11-19 23:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Thanks for that link at #13. He "got to reassure the Paddy!" Not that the film (71) was any fairer to the Brits than any other Troubles movie I've ever seen, but that line never fails to crack me up.
Posted by Glereck Unert4391 2022-11-19 23:58||   2022-11-19 23:58|| Front Page Top

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