In a development heralded by Americans who are dismayed and frustrated by Joe Biden’s open border madness – a policy that has seen an estimated five million illegal aliens enter the country since 2021 – recently re-elected Texas governor Greg Abbott has deployed a fleet of “armored personnel carriers” to the porous southern border.
In addition to the ten tanks, reports are also coming out that other increased “security measures” will be utilized, including the flying of aircraft to patrol the sizeable border between Texas and Mexico.
Such actions come on the heels of Governor Abbott’s declaration that he invoked the “Invasion Clause” in both the national and state constitutions.
I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. & Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion.
I'm using that constitutional authority, & other authorization & Executive Orders to keep our state & country safe: pic.twitter.com/2Jt5HEMgp5
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 15, 2022
Among the itemized list presented by Abbott, he wished to build a more robust wall and also use gun boats to secure the border. In total, he now foresees using planes, boats, and tanks, in addition to increased manpower, to thwart the sovereign invasion of Texas by foreign nationals. Zerohedge wrote that all of this has happened in a matter of days.
Three days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott invoked the state’s “Invasion Clauses” to tackle the record-setting influx of migrants illegally crossing the southern border, a new planning document obtained by Army Times and The Texas Tribune reveals Texas Military Department officials are planning to deploy a fleet of fully tracked armored personnel carriers and National Guard troops.
Texas Military Department officials issued the order Thursday to the headquarters leading Operation Lone Star reveals. It detailed the deployment of ten M113 armored personnel carrier vehicles to the border.
By Friday, the Texas Military Department released a statement that “aircraft flights and security efforts” will also be ramped up.
Surely, no one appreciates these efforts more than private landowners in the most affected areas. Around the same time as Abbott invoked the constitutional clauses, Fox News’ Bill Melugin shared drone footage of a massive wave of immigrants crossing private property. He wrote that this was just one of tens of thousands of people to have entered through just one small sector alone in the past few months.
NEW: Thermal drone video from our team in Eagle Pass, TX shows a large group of migrants crossing illegally into private property early this morning.
Per CBP source, there have been over 1,400 illegal crossings in the Del Rio sector in the last 24 hours & 69,000 since 10/1. pic.twitter.com/N1FjKVVuDa— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 17, 2022
NEW: Thermal drone video from our team in Eagle Pass, TX shows a large group of migrants crossing illegally into private property early this morning.
Per CBP source, there have been over 1,400 illegal crossings in the Del Rio sector in the last 24 hours & 69,000 since 10/1.
Responding to that imagery and tweet, Texas Senator Ted Cruz also chimed in, adding that an unfathomably large number of illegal aliens had come into the country in recent months as well as since Biden took office.
5,000,000 illegal aliens have crossed the border since Joe Biden was elected.
Over 230,000 illegal aliens crossed last month alone.
And STILL Joe Biden doesn’t secure the border. https://t.co/BBSJadktHB
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 17, 2022
5,000,000 illegal aliens have crossed the border since Joe Biden was elected.
Over 230,000 illegal aliens crossed last month alone.
And STILL Joe Biden doesn’t secure the border.
Adding yet more context to this de facto invasion, Melugin shared another tweet contextualizing just how bad this immigration pattern has become by showing figures from the Trump presidency to the Biden presidency for the month of October stretching back five years.
BREAKING: CBP reports there were 230,678 migrant encounters at the border in October, the first month of fiscal year 2023. It is an enormous increase over recent Octobers.
OCT FY'23 : 230,678
OCT FY'22 : 164,837
OCT FY'21 : 71,929
OCT FY'20: 45,139
OCT FY'19: 60,781 @FoxNews— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 15, 2022
BREAKING: CBP reports there were 230,678 migrant encounters at the border in October, the first month of fiscal year 2023. It is an enormous increase over recent Octobers.
OCT FY’23 : 230,678
OCT FY’22 : 164,837
OCT FY’21 : 71,929
OCT FY’20: 45,139
OCT FY’19: 60,781
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