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2024-01-25 -Land of the Free

Texas ~~escalates~~ feud with federal government, telling ranchers SCOTUS ruling on razor wire not final, offering to give ranchers razor wire as migrants are now sneaking into US through private property

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 the state could install razor wire on their private property free of charge

I could use some new fence.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 04:12|| 2024-01-25 04:12|| Front Page Top

#2 BORDER SHOWDOWN: DHS Sends 2nd Demand Notice to Texas over Seized Park Access

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 06:12|| 2024-01-25 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I could be wrong, but something tells me Texas will not back down from this one.

Biden's handlers not forceful enough? Globalist Replacement People programme in danger? Is this why Soetoro is suddenly turning on Biden ?

I'm very curious as to what Gov. Abbott's 'Plan B' may entail.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-25 06:22|| 2024-01-25 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 On the other hand, the SC could order Biden to enforce current immigration laws….

Posted by Itsoktobewhite 2024-01-25 06:25|| 2024-01-25 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The Supreme Court didn't forbid Texas to install razor wire, it just gave federal agents the authority to cut it down if it impedes their work.

Btw I'm not sure about this: Does private property stretch right to the border? Do federal agents have the right to enter private land right at the border? (I'd be surprised if they didn't).

Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 07:15|| 2024-01-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Yeah, that worked well when they decided the student loan forgiveness was unlawful. Hell, he's pretty much bragging about doing it anyway.

Posted by Chris 2024-01-25 08:22|| 2024-01-25 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^ #5 Easements.
Feds and local governments have easements.

Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-01-25 08:24|| 2024-01-25 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Easements.... but can they cut down razor wire on private property?

Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 09:05|| 2024-01-25 09:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Razor wire all along private property lines. Turn easements into "no man's land" then see how Obama responds.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-01-25 09:09|| 2024-01-25 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 ...If you think about it for a second...the smartest thing Biden and/or his handlers could do is just keep arguing with TX but not actually do anything.

The state is making huge and (somewhat) effective efforts to stop the flow. The Feds can doubletalk it while TX takes all the heat.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-01-25 10:12|| 2024-01-25 10:12|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Hadn't given that one any thought Mike. Very interesting theory.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-25 10:38|| 2024-01-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm very curious as to what Gov. Abbott's 'Plan B' may entail.

Border to border 'stop-n-frisk', 'show me your papers' kind of thing I'm afraid if they can't stop the mass invasion.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 12:07|| 2024-01-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Sanctuary City mayors are already blaming Abbott for the influx of illegals. As if their constituents are too stupid to know it's Biden.

Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-01-25 13:48|| 2024-01-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 When we built the preliminary section of the California border wall in 1992-94 I spent some time with the USBP Sector Staff and our Team Engineer leadership literally on the US-Mexico Border. I learned that the Border Patrol and Customs Service had unrestricted access to an easement 60 feet wide along the entire border(Roosevelt easement cite from Wiki below). Texas was NOT included in that easement "...Texas retained all public lands upon the Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties."

The interesting discussion of the USSC ruling is that it did not require Texas to remove anything, but rather granted the USBP authority to remove obstacles to their access for law enforcement.

By invoking " Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense." it appears Texas countered by insisting it had self-defense rights defined in the US Constitution, and the State Constitution, thus forcing the issue back to the USSC it would seem.

Wiki Cite Verbatim: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot (18 m)-wide strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government along the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) total. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.[1]

In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt in a Presidential Proclamation (35 Stat. 2136) established the reservation in order to keep all public lands along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico "free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico".[2][3][4] Texas was excluded because Texas retained all public lands upon the Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties.

Construction of the Trump wall along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico was expedited since the reservation reduced the need to acquire additional private property.[5]"

First CA Border Wall circa 1994 vicinity Tecate

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-25 14:34|| 2024-01-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ I'm old enough to remember this as well as the undercover SDPD patrols at Smuggler's Gulch and Goat Cyn, as well as the mass-rushes across the border at Tijuana. The fence at the time was old landing-strip panels. It sucked

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