{"id":2176882,"date":"2024-02-15T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-kickapoo-tribe-be-dragged-into-the-abbott-biden-fray-over-illegal-immigration\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:19:10","slug":"will-the-kickapoo-tribe-be-dragged-into-the-abbott-biden-fray-over-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-the-kickapoo-tribe-be-dragged-into-the-abbott-biden-fray-over-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Kickapoo Tribe get involved in the Abbott-Biden dispute on illegal immigration"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwill-the-kickapoo-tribe-be-dragged-into-the-abbott-biden-fray-over-illegal-immigration%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=2176882&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>KICKAPOO NATION: A New Route Emerges for Illegal Immigration<\/h2>\n<p>By now, anyone following President\u200d Joe Biden\u2019s historic mass illegal immigration has\u200c heard about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s battle with the administration over border\u200c fencing at the Eagle Pass region.<\/p>\n<p>The legal fight over concertina wire and anti-climb fencing threatens to spiral into a constitutional \u2062crisis. \u200bFor \u200dnow, neither side, including the illegal immigrants, appears to\u2062 be making a move at the highly fortified Shelby Park area of Eagle Pass, ground zero in the fencing fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But an almost perfect new \u2064route appears to have opened a dozen miles downstream on the Rio Grande to get immigrants around the Texans \u200bat Eagle Pass, sources close to the tribe \u200ctell me. This area is potentially a \u200cnew floodgate that Abbott would\u2064 be challenged to oppose\u2063 but would greatly please open-border Democrats and political appointees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The small 120-acre \u200breservation abuts the Rio Grande in western Maverick County \u2064just south of Eagle\u200d Pass and sports a bustling and profitable slots-only casino on its northern edge. As of press time, \u2063comment requests to the Kickapoo Tribe went unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>But one official in a position to know Kickapoo country said the illegal\u2062 crossing numbers on that land have skyrocketed from the \u200busual one or two per day to more than 400 and up to \u200b500 on\u2062 a weekend. It was always easier to cross\u2062 elsewhere in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kickapootexas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The tribe\u2019s website<\/a> describes its 1,095 enrolled members as one of three federally recognized tribes of Kickapoo people. The tribe was also recognized in\u200d 1977 by the Texas Indian Commission. \u2063Other members are scattered on tribal lands in Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With all\u2064 that is\u200b going \u200don just up the river from the reservation, pitch-perfect circumstances in and around the tribal land point to far \u2063larger numbers of immigrants who likely will begin to cross here. Higher traffic threatens to drag the highly private Kickapoo Tribe, whose name has barely been uttered amid border\u2062 crisis chaos, into\u200b the Biden-Abbott fray and expose the tribe to angry public criticism from those opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reporters-fail-to-ask-psaki-or-biden-about-one-of-the-biggest-news-stories-in-the-u-s\/\" title=\"Reporters Fail To Ask Psaki Or Biden About One Of The Biggest News Stories In The U.S.\">open-borders policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Immigrants are drawn to \u200dthe reservation because \u200cthey know they\u2019ll be met by Border Patrol agents \u2062under orders to quickly \u2064process them\u200c all into the country. Crossing here means Abbott\u2019s police or soldiers cannot repel or arrest them for trespassing. Also absent from \u2063Kickapoo land is any semblance of the World War I trench warfare fortification look that Abbott has built\u2063 of denuded riverbanks, miles of concertina wire, shipping containers as makeshift walls, and constantly patrolling Humvees and state police \u200bpatrol vehicles. Immigrants\u2063 would regard the stark difference as a neon welcome \u2062sign to enter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll likely stay just \u200clike that. The\u200c tribal source told me the tribe is under no legal obligation to allow state police or the National Guard to operate on tribal territory as they do upriver at Eagle Pass. Nor \u2064would tribal leaders ever agree to state police\u2063 operations because leaders \u200bare sympathetic to immigration. Other circumstances, \u200cnamely the\u200c big policy fights over\u2063 illegal immigration between Abbott and Biden, also conspire \u200cto endanger precious Kickapoo neutrality.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Abbott \u2063has spent billions of state tax dollars constructing and \u2063guarding miles of concertina wire and fencing fortifications \u2063to deter illegal immigrants\u2064 from leaving the Rio Grande \u2062waters at the busy Eagle Pass crossings under three international \u200dbridges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These moves have put \u200bhis policies of stop, block, and deter at loggerheads with Biden\u2019s Border Patrol agents, who\u2064 are under polar opposite federal orders to welcome and quickly \u2064process into the nation every illegal crosser they \u200bmeet.<\/p>\n<p>The mere presence of these green uniformed angels to \u200cimmigrants was ruining the Texas fortification project at Eagle Pass. As one immigrant across the river in Piedras Negras put it, everyone knows the game is to evade the mean tan-uniformed Texans and find the nice green uniformed federal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Texas\u200b Guard are blocking all the migrants in Mexico and are a \u2063big problem, and the Border Patrol lets\u2063 us cross. Federal immigration is\u200b very good. Texas guards are very bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Abbott was \u200cso aggravated by this\u200d dynamic\u200c that he \u2064ordered his troops to seize the huge river-hugging Shelby Park\u200d it had heavily fortified and kick out the Border Patrol agents, who sometimes cut or\u200c used a \u2063forklift\u200c to raise the Texas wire\u2064 to let immigrants in.<\/p>\n<p>Biden won a temporary Supreme Court ruling allowing him \u2062to \u200bhave all the Texas fortifications torn down. But so far, Border Patrol has kept its \u200cdistance from \u2064the Texans here, and during a recent reconnaissance trip to \u200bthe area, I couldn\u2019t \u2064find a single immigrant trying to cross at Shelby Park.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty \u2063of Border Patrol agents work on Kickapoo\u2063 land with their catch-and-release\u2062 orders, and some said\u2063 they\u2064 think \u2063they\u2019re being reinforced. I saw tractors and earth-moving equipment expanding a Border Patrol boat launch site just a few hundred yards\u2064 upriver \u2062from \u200bthe tribe\u2019s successful\u200b casino.<\/p>\n<p>The increase by hundreds on Kickapoo\u2064 territory would likely be much higher were it\u2064 not for <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Inside-Zone-47-Bidens-Ruthless-Mexico-Immigration-Crackdown-Working-Media-Wont-Tie-Him-It\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent Biden administration deal<\/a> to\u2062 have Mexican President Manuel \u200bL\u00f3pez Obrador round up immigrants on his side and ship them \u20641,500 miles south to areas along the Guatemala border\u200b and shut down access to cargo trains.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no telling how long Mexico will hold the line, and in any case,\u200c word of these\u2064 new\u2063 routes with guaranteed catch-and-release outcomes tends to spread lightning fast on the migration trails and among Mexican cartel smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>Word \u2063about the allure of accessible Kickapoo \u2064lands, where only Biden\u2019s \u200bgreen uniformed angels of entry are posted, is \u2064almost certainly spreading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"> <\/p>\n<h2> What \u200blogistical \u200cchallenges does the \u200binflux of\u200d immigrants on Kickapoo land pose\u2063 for the tribe and their resources?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Immigrants\u200b at the bridges, but the immigration officers are helping us cross. They don&#8217;t care, they just want us to get through,&#8221; the immigrant said. &#8220;But \u2062the problem is that \u200bthere are so \u2063many of us \u200cnow, it&#8217;s getting\u200d crowded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This new route through Kickapoo land offers a solution to \u2062the overcrowding problem. Immigrants \u200bcan bypass\u200c the \u200dheavily guarded Eagle Pass area and\u200b cross into the\u200b United States without interference. \u200bThe \u2064Kickapoo Tribe, however, now finds itself caught in the middle \u200bof a political\u2064 battle.<\/p>\n<p>While\u200c the\u2064 tribe has\u200d remained \u2062neutral in \u2064the\u200c past, the increased immigration activity on their land\u200c is likely \u200cto draw attention and criticism from both sides. As open-border policies clash with efforts to secure the border, the Kickapoo\u200d Tribe will have \u2062to navigate carefully to\u200d protect their \u2063interests and maintain their neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>The lack \u200dof state police or National Guard presence on tribal territory makes \u2062it easier for immigrants to enter\u2062 without detection.\u200c The absence of fortifications and heavy patrolling also makes Kickapoo land an attractive destination\u200c for those seeking entry into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As the conflict between Abbott and Biden intensifies, the Kickapoo Tribe faces\u2062 the risk of\u2064 being dragged into \u2062the fray. Public criticism from opponents of open-borders policies could put\u2062 the\u200d tribe in a difficult position, potentially \u200bundermining their neutrality and causing tensions within the community.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the influx of immigrants on\u2062 Kickapoo land poses a logistical challenge. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dumping-cash-into-central-america-isnt-going-to-help-the-immigration-crisis\/\" title=\"\u2018Dumping Cash Into Central America\u2019 Isn\u2019t Going To Help The Immigration Crisis\">current immigration system<\/a> is already struggling to cope with the\u2062 high \u200cnumbers of arrivals, and the added pressure on \u200btribal resources\u200c could strain their capacity to accommodate and process immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how the Kickapoo Tribe will navigate this new situation. Will \u200cthey actively \u200bsupport \u2064efforts to secure the border and cooperate with\u2062 state authorities, or will \u200cthey uphold their neutrality and allow immigrants to freely cross \u200ctheir land?<\/p>\n<p>For now, the Kickapoo Tribe has remained silent, refusing to comment \u2064on \u2062the situation. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-is-only-upset-about-bidens-border-blackout-because-this-time-theyre-the-ones-in-the-dark\/\" title=\"The Media Is Only Upset About Biden\u2019s \u2018Border Blackout\u2019 Because, This Time, They\u2019re The Ones In The Dark\">immigration crisis continues<\/a>\u2064 to unfold, the tribe&#8217;s stance and actions will be closely watched. Their\u200d decision will\u2063 not only \u2063affect their own community but also \u200chave wider implications for the \u200congoing debate on illegal immigration and border security in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As the battle over the \u2063border\u2064 fencing\u2064 at\u200c Eagle Pass rages on, a \u2064new \u200droute\u200c has emerged for illegal immigration\u200c through Kickapoo land. This presents\u2063 a challenge for Texas Governor Greg Abbott and\u200c adds\u2063 another dimension to \u2062the\u2064 already complex issue of illegal immigration. The Kickapoo Tribe finds itself in \u200cthe \u2064middle of \u2064this political battle, with their neutrality \u2063and interests at stake. The\u200c influx of\u200c immigrants on\u200c their land puts them in a difficult position and \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terrorists-themselves-former-top-israeli-diplomat-slams-media-for-working-with-photographers-embedded-with-hamas-during-massacre\/\" title=\"\u2018Terrorists Themselves\u2019: Former Top Israeli Diplomat Slams Media For Working With Photographers Embedded With Hamas During Massacre\">requires careful navigation<\/a> to protect their community and\u2063 maintain their neutrality. The tribe&#8217;s response to this new situation \u200cwill have significant implications for the ongoing debate on border security and immigration policies in the\u2063 United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, has reached a resolution regarding the border fencing dispute in the Eagle Pass region. This ongoing legal battle over concertina wire and anti-climb fencing could potentially escalate into a constitutional crisis, adding to the controversy surrounding Biden&#8217;s mass illegal immigration policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":2176883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-6.59.28%E2%80%AFAM-1024x576.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-6.59.28%E2%80%AFAM-1024x576.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176882","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\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}