{"id":1760458,"date":"2022-12-03T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1760458"},"modified":"2022-12-03T06:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:49:15","slug":"border-communities-declaring-local-states-of-disaster-over-growing-crossings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-communities-declaring-local-states-of-disaster-over-growing-crossings\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Communities Declaring Local States of Disaster Over Growing Crossings"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fborder-communities-declaring-local-states-of-disaster-over-growing-crossings%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=1760458&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\/11\/9e8794fc-417b-45c5-b4ca-854fbff65fff.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\">Several counties in Texas are declaring a \u201clocal state of disaster\u201d over the growing number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and entering their communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/12\/01\/texas-local-disasters-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Texas Tribune<\/a><span>\u00a0reported this week that the counties that declare a local disaster due to the border crisis could receive funding and support through Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s (R) Operation Lone Star program, a border security initiative in the state between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>One county in particular, Hopkins County, sits more than 500 miles from the southern border and an eight-hour drive away, the Tribune noted. County commissioners declared a state of disaster in the county over an \u201cinvasion\u201d of migrants flooding into their community since President Biden took office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cThe health, safety and welfare of Hopkins County residents are under an imminent threat of disaster from the unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling coming across the U.S. border from Mexico,\u201d the declaration reportedly said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Kinney County, which is between Del Rio and Eagle Pass, was the first to do this in April 2021. Since then, over 30 counties have done so, according to the Tribune. Afterwards, this allows the counties to apply for support through Operation Lone Star for their law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span><\/span><span>Townhall has covered how Abbott began sending illegal immigrants on buses to \u201csanctuary cities\u201d led by Democrats, such as Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, and the latest,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/madelineleesman\/2022\/11\/16\/migrants-arrive-on-bus-in-philly-n2616022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0to share the burden of Biden&#8217;s open border policies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>&#8220;Since April, Texas&#8217; busing strategy has successfully provided much-needed relief to our border communities overwhelmed by the historic influx of migrants caused by President Biden&#8217;s reckless open border policies,&#8221; Abbott said in a statement announcing the busload of migrants being sent to Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u00a0&#8220;Until the Biden Administration does its job and provides Texans and the American people with sustainable border security, Texas will continue doing more than any other state in the nation&#8217;s history to defend against an invasion along the border, including adding more sanctuary cities like Philadelphia as drop-off locations for our busing strategy,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>According to CBS News, Texas officials have sent over 13,000 illegal immigrants to New York City and Chicago. As Julio\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/09\/08\/lori-lightfoot-welcomed-migrants-bused-to-chicagobut-they-sent-them-out-of-the-city-n2612850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered<\/a><span>, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sent some of the migrants to towns outside the city without warning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Townhall\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/rebeccadowns\/2022\/08\/23\/pentagon-once-more-denies-dc-mayor-bowsers-request-for-national-guard-assistance-n2612145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered<\/a><span>\u00a0how Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, on two occasions, asked the Pentagon to send in the National Guard to help process the migrants that were sent to the nation\u2019s capital. \u00a0The Pentagon denied her requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In an interview, Bowser then said that D.C. is \u201cnot Texas\u201d and cannot accommodate the migrants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democrat Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: &#8220;We&#8217;re not a border town. We don&#8217;t have an infrastructure to handle this type of and level of immigration to our city &#8230; We&#8217;re not Texas.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yqiZZbQAp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/yqiZZbQAp0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1570896998911328259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several counties in Texas are declaring a \u201clocal state of disaster\u201d over the growing number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and entering their communities.\u00a0 The Texas Tribune\u00a0reported this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760458","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}