{"id":1507063,"date":"2022-06-07T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507063"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T22:36:46","slug":"beto-orourke-i-think-the-border-is-pretty-great-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beto-orourke-i-think-the-border-is-pretty-great-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke: \u2018I Think The Border Is Pretty Great Right Now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fbeto-orourke-i-think-the-border-is-pretty-great-right-now%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=1507063&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--><p>Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke said that he thinks the situation at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/border-crisis\">southern border<\/a> is \u201cpretty great right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Xak6h3SAPI&#038;t=54m35s\">town hall<\/a> Monday afternoon in Rio Grande City, Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/beto-orourke\">O\u2019Rourke<\/a> was asked by a voter during a question and answer period what he would do with state funding currently being used to construct a border wall on state land in gaps between segments of the federal border wall. O\u2019Rourke said the money should be redirected toward communities and toward helping migrants instead of a border barrier and extra manpower at the border, which he derided as \u201cbumper sticker slogans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Texas Democrat Beto O\u2019Rourke: \u201cI think the border\u2019s pretty great right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s border crisis is the worst on record. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EbFTKzZdUi\">pic.twitter.com\/EbFTKzZdUi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1534221366358155265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you do about the money that the state is spending on a wall that does not work?\u201d the questioner began, claiming that walls do not work because of the large number of migrants that cross the border every month. \u201cEliminate that money, eliminate the money that is being used for the Texas [National Guard], put it into our schools, that\u2019s where we need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke began his response by pointing out that Governor Greg Abbott has invested $5 billion of state money toward efforts to secure the southern border. \u201cAnd we all agree that we want the border to be better. In fact, I think the border is pretty great right now. I\u2019d love to see investments in our communities, protecting our natural heritage, improving the ability to help those who are seeking asylum and trying to do it lawfully and in an orderly fashion, because they literally cannot return to their home countries for fear of being killed, or their children being kidnapped. I want to see us do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut involuntarily activating ten thousand of our fellow Texans, with a week\u2019s notice, they were taken from their families, their kids, their jobs, their careers, and sent to the border for a one-year deployment, and these guard members have no constitutional authority to arrest or detain, they can only spot and radio in to CBP, or to local law enforcement,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd there is some value in that, I think a voluntary activation at some small number might make sense, we\u2019ve been doing that in Texas for years. But ten thousand members, a wall, that is more of a public art installation than it is anything else \u2026 it\u2019s done nothing to stop anybody. But it really speaks to the larger problem that we have in this state and in this country \u2026 we\u2019re excited \u2026 for bumper sticker solutions like \u2018build that wall,\u2019 or \u2018deport them all,\u2019 or be incredibly cruel, or do whatever it takes, we just don\u2019t want to have to deal with this problem, instead of addressing the underlying issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott announced the first construction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-official-texas-border-wall-construction-begins\">state\u2019s border wall<\/a> in December. \u201cTexas has officially started building its own border wall,\u201d Abbott tweeted on December 17th. \u201cBiden allows open border policies and refuses to enforce laws passed by Congress to secure the border and enforce immigration laws. Texas is stepping up to do the federal government\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a Texas Facilities Commission in November, commissioners unanimously approved a contract to construct a total of eight miles of border barrier that would fill gaps in the federal border wall, The Daily Wire reported. Abbott also announced in October that the state would use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/governor-abbott-reveals-clever-way-texas-is-using-shipping-containers-to-stop-illegal-immigration\">shipping containers<\/a> as makeshift barricades to block other segments of the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke said that he thinks the situation at the southern border is \u201cpretty great right now.\u201d At a town hall Monday afternoon in Rio Grande City, Texas, O\u2019Rourke was asked by a voter during a question and answer period what he would do with state funding currently being used &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1507103,"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-1507063","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\/1507063","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1507103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}