{"id":1432249,"date":"2022-04-12T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432249"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:01:37","slug":"gov-abbotts-d-c-caravan-gimmick-wont-secure-the-border-heres-what-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-abbotts-d-c-caravan-gimmick-wont-secure-the-border-heres-what-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott\u2019s D.C. Caravan Gimmick Won\u2019t Secure The Border. Here\u2019s What Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-abbotts-d-c-caravan-gimmick-wont-secure-the-border-heres-what-will%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/48037490182_c11b3f9ffa_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In light of President Biden\u2019s announcement he\u2019s ending Title 42 removal authority at the southern border, last week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced what he called \u201cunprecedented\u201d actions to stop the flow of illegal immigration. The first part of his plan, while lauded as aggressive, unfortunately falls short of unprecedented and won\u2019t stop the invasion at the southern border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true: the end of Title 42 will ensure a catastrophic surge of illegal immigration heading into the warmer spring and summer months. That will overwhelm an already battered Border Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the context of 2021\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/04\/us-made-record-1-9-million-migrant-arrests-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record illegal immigration levels<\/a>, an astonishing 78 percent increase in year-over-year apprehensions so far in 2022 from last year\u2019s record levels, and the pending termination of Title 42, Abbott\u2019s actions fall far short of the measures needed to secure Texas, diminish cartel control along the border, and defend American communities overrun with crime, drugs, and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-takes-aggressive-action-to-secure-the-border-as-president-biden-ends-title-42-expulsions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced series of new measures<\/a> are little more than window dressing. The governor is instructing the Texas Department of Public Safety to conduct \u201cenhanced safety inspections\u201d of vehicles crossing into Texas from Mexico, initiating \u201cboat blockades\u201d along the Rio Grande to deter crossings, and, to ensure more headlines: providing <em>voluntary<\/em> charter buses and flights to send illegal immigrants to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, Abbott is using taxpayer dollars to pay for optional vacations 2,000 miles away \u2014 at a time of record gas prices \u2014 instead of turning these illegal migrants around and sending them two miles back across the border. Bussing illegals to D.C. is nice showmanship, but does nothing to change the illegal flow into Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abbott must do more than just set up road inspections (which ironically would slow the legal flow), deploy water obstacles, and offer voluntary illegal immigrant transportation services to left-wing cities. These policy solutions on their own will have no impact on the numbers of illegal aliens crossing Texas\u2019s border with Mexico.\u00a0None.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is especially true of road inspections, because the overwhelming majority of illegal immigration occurs between ports of entry. The extent to which the governor believes such road inspections will put pressure on Mexico to crack down on illegal border crossings due to the diminished flow of goods and services is wholly contingent on the duration, scope, and intensity of the inspections.<\/p>\n<p>That requires the governor to be absolutely clear about how much economic pressure he intends to put on Mexico and what metrics he and his team intend to achieve with regard to such inspections. That he has not done so requires clear-eyed observers to be skeptical of the policy\u2019s presumed effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>What should Abbott do? Something that we at the <a href=\"https:\/\/americarenewing.com\/issues\/policy-brief-how-states-can-secure-the-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Renewing America have been advocating to border states<\/a>: declare that an <em>invasion <\/em>is taking place in Texas under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution and that in light of the Biden administration\u2019s willful negligence and dereliction of its duty to carry out its Article IV, Section 4 responsibilities to protect the states, Texas will physically apprehend and remove illegal border crossers back across the border into Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to states to use their inherent Article I authority to do what Washington refuses to do: secure their borders with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>We have provided state legislators and governors a <a href=\"https:\/\/americarenewing.com\/issues\/policy-brief-how-states-can-secure-the-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clear policy path<\/a> for bringing an end to the security crisis playing out along the southern border. This plan has already been validated by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azag.gov\/opinions\/i22-001-r21-015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">landmark legal opinion<\/a> issued earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Americans do not have the luxury of withstanding another three years of the Biden administration\u2019s intentionally destructive policies at the southern border. It is up to states and those elected to govern them to step into the breach and restore order and security.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has the ability to get this done. All that is required is the resolve to see it through.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing Abbott announced will accomplish any reduction of the flow of illegal aliens across Texas\u2019 border, but he indicated that he intended to announce other efforts this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a year of Texas\u2019 \u201cOperation Lone Star,\u201d it should be clear to all: Until illegal border crossers are returned to Mexico reliably and regularly, no other efforts will have any useful impact.\u00a0In fact, the money Texas is spending on Operation Lone Star is effectively being wasted because <em>the one thing <\/em>that would give it \u201cteeth\u201d and deter potential illegal border crossers is <em>not<\/em> being done.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of Texas and America, it is my most earnest hope that this week, <em>finally<\/em>, Gov. Abbott will use the power he has under the U.S. Constitution to repel the invasion crossing Texas\u2019 border every single day.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Ken Cuccinelli is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Renewing America. Previously, he was President Trump&#8217;s Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). He was also Virginia Attorney General.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of President Biden\u2019s announcement he\u2019s ending Title 42 removal authority at the southern border, last week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced what he called \u201cunprecedented\u201d actions to stop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":642,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}