{"id":24579,"date":"2021-06-02T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2021-06-02T14:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:57:21","slug":"texas-state-of-emergency-border-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/02\/texas-state-of-emergency-border-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Expands Disaster Area as a Sheriff Cracks Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As U.S. Border Patrol officers <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/What-Normalized-Mass-Illegal-Immigration-Looks-and-Feels\" target=\"_blank\">stand down<\/a> amid swelling waves of illegal aliens, Texas has declared a <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-in-response-to-border-crisis-in-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">disaster<\/a> in 34 counties, nearly tripling the number of affected counties from just a month ago. Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Authorizes use of state and local resources to protect life and property. <\/li><li>Directs the Department of Public Safety to enforce all federal and state criminal laws.<\/li><li>Provides waivers to expand capacity at detention facilities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of Abbott\u2019s declaration, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/texas-counties-start-charging-illegal-aliens-with-child-endangerment-trespass_3838725.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">South Texas county<\/a> was already charging migrants with trespassing, evading arrest, reckless endangerment and other offenses. \u201cIf [President Joe] Biden is not going to enforce the law, then we\u2019re going to try to enforce our own state laws,\u201d said Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheriff\nBrad Coe\u2019s office recently filed child endangerment charges against a woman who\nbailed out of a vehicle pulled over by a deputy. The migrant had grabbed her\n7-year-old and ran into the brush without food or water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As elected officials, sheriffs have broad law-enforcement powers. This chafes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/25\/895423249\/do-elected-sheriffs-have-outsized-power-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">leftwing activists<\/a> who consider the office to be \u201ca singularly troubling and problematic position of authority.\u201d Yet even the toughest sheriffs are hedged by legal constraints and logistical realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson\nCounty Sheriff A.J. Louderback told FAIR in an interview that Texas needs \u201call\nhands on deck in this government-manufactured crisis.\u201d Abbott\u2019s declaration can\nmarshal resources, but Kinney County\u2019s experience highlights the limits of\nlocal authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take an illegal alien arrested on trespassing charges, for example. County Attorney Smith can charge the migrant with a Class B misdemeanor, which can be elevated if the individual had a deadly weapon or is found more than 100 feet inside agricultural property. A guilty plea typically results in release with time served (two to three days). The migrant is then turned over to Border Patrol, which, under Biden administration policies, allows even <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Washington-Wont-Let-Border-Patrol-Arrest-Human-Smugglers-Offloading-Aliens-Right-Front-Them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">criminals<\/a> to continue their trek into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local\naction by sheriffs and Abbott\u2019s declaration may slow, but will not stop, this\nrevolving door &#8212; leaving frustrated Texans to wonder about the efficacy of\nspending their tax dollars on a federal problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, the governor asked beleaguered counties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/05\/03\/texas-state-of-emergency-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">compile their costs<\/a> caused by illegal border crossers so he could forward the bill to the White House. Any bets on how that request for reimbursement will be received?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. Border Patrol officers stand down amid swelling waves of illegal aliens, Texas has declared a disaster in 34 counties, nearly tripling the number of affected counties from just a month ago. Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s action: Authorizes use of state and local resources to protect life and property. Directs the Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/06\/02\/texas-state-of-emergency-border-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":24335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11117],"tags":[10413,1506,1524,105],"yst_prominent_words":[11534,2837,2257,3011,2043,2042,6491,2071,11535,4736,11538,3776,2013,11537,2252,2659,2919,2373,2167,11536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24580,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions\/24580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}