{"id":548897,"date":"2021-06-01T19:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548897"},"modified":"2021-06-01T19:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T23:50:58","slug":"greg-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-amid-immigration-crisis-blasts-bidens-open-border-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/greg-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-amid-immigration-crisis-blasts-bidens-open-border-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration Amid Immigration Crisis, Blasts Biden\u2019s \u2018Open-Border Policies\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\">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%2Fgreg-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-amid-immigration-crisis-blasts-bidens-open-border-policies%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=548897&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\/2021\/06\/Greg-Abbott.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that illegal immigration into his state had reached crisis levels and declared the situation at the border a \u201cdisaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-in-response-to-border-crisis-in-texas\">issued<\/a> the disaster declaration on Monday, granting the state and local governments greater flexibility to use state and national resources to deal with the crisis. Abbott\u2019s disaster declaration comes amid record levels of illegal immigration into the United States spurred by the election of President Joe Biden in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden\u2019s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities,\u201d Abbott said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cMeanwhile, landowners along the border are seeing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis while the Biden Administration does nothing to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas continues to step up to confront the border crisis in the federal government\u2019s absence, but more must be done,\u201d he continued. \u201cBy declaring a state of disaster in these counties, Texas will have more resources and strategies at our disposal to protect landowners and enforce all federal and state laws to combat criminal activities stemming from the border crisis. Working together with local law enforcement, the state will continue to take robust and meaningful action to keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbot\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/uploads\/files\/press\/DISASTER_border_security_IMAGE_05-31-2021.pdf\">declaration<\/a> rips Biden, blaming his administration for the border crisis and for endangering Texans and \u201ccausing a humanitarian crisis\u201d at the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he Federal government used to take seriously its responsibility to enforce federal immigration laws and secure the international border, which allowed Texas to collaborate on law enforcement and related activities along the border,\u201d the declaration says. \u201c[U]nder the Biden administration, however, the federal government has shown unwillingness, ambivalence, or inability to enforce federal immigration laws, to deter and stop illegal border crossings into the United States, or to meaningfully partner with Texas in pursuing these goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, the Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dhs-finally-admits-record-surge-at-southern-border-enlists-fema-to-detain-children\">acknowledged<\/a> that illegal immigrations are surging across the United States\u2019 southern border in \u201crecord numbers.\u201d The Biden administration has continued to downplay the situation, however, refusing to call the wave of illegal immigrants crossing the border a \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government is responding to the arrival of record numbers of individuals, including unaccompanied children, at the southwest border. Since April 2020, the number of encounters at the border has been rising due to ongoing violence, natural disasters, food insecurity, and poverty in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America,\u201d DHS said at the time. \u201cThe federal government is working around the clock to move unaccompanied children from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) care and to place them with a family member or sponsor until their immigration case is adjudicated.\u00a0 The risks posed by the spread of COVID-19 have made this mission all the more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-formally-ends-remain-in-mexico-immigration-policy\">ended<\/a> former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cremain in Mexico\u201d policy on Tuesday, though it had been effectively ended for some time. The Trump administration enacted the policy to keep immigrants applying for asylum in Mexico while they await their court hearing. Under Biden, asylum-seeking immigrants are released into the interior of the country to await their court date.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also cut back immigration enforcement. Last week, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/functionally-abolished-ice-averaging-one-arrest-every-two-months-amid-border-crisis\">reported<\/a> that the administration had \u201ceffectively abolished\u201d Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. The agency is averaging one arrest every two months.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that illegal immigration into his state had reached crisis levels and declared the situation at the border a \u201cdisaster.\u201dAbbott issued the disaster declaration on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278856,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Greg-Abbott.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Greg Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration Amid Immigration Crisis, Blasts Biden\u2019s \u2018Open-Border Policies\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Greg-Abbott.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Greg Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration Amid Immigration Crisis, Blasts Biden\u2019s \u2018Open-Border Policies\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548897","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=548897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}