{"id":804957,"date":"2021-09-23T06:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=804957"},"modified":"2021-09-23T06:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:13:32","slug":"exclusive-texas-house-republicans-urge-biden-to-declare-emergency-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-texas-house-republicans-urge-biden-to-declare-emergency-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Texas House Republicans Urge Biden To Declare Emergency At The Border"},"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%2Fexclusive-texas-house-republicans-urge-biden-to-declare-emergency-at-the-border%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=804957&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><\/div>\n<p>A majority of Texas House Republicans asked President Joe Biden to declare an emergency at the southern border, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of Texas\u2019 23 Republican representatives signed on to&nbsp;the letter penned by Rep. Lance Gooden asking Biden to approve Republican Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s request for a federal emergency declaration in response to the border crisis, according to the letter. The Republicans cited a massive influx of around 16,000 migrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/del-rio-texas-mayor-lozano-migrant-crisis\/\">mostly from Haiti<\/a>, who established a temporary camp under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crisis at the border has reached a tipping point. The president can no longer deny an emergency exists, and Texas cannot be expected to continue shouldering the cost of securing our southern border,\u201d Gooden told the DCNF. \u201cPresident Biden must grant the governor\u2019s request for a federal emergency declaration.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.521008403361\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Texas National Guard Soldiers &amp; Texas Department of Public Safety personnel guard an area on the Rio Grande River to STOP illegal border crossings into Texas.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to surge state resources to secure the border &amp; address the chaos created by the Biden Administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dh416SpX4z\">pic.twitter.com\/dh416SpX4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1440767432340099077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Texas law enforcement personnel and other state resources have been redirected from other communities efforts and sent to the southern border, according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA considerable portion of Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard and law enforcement resources are deployed at our southern border even though immigration and border security are federal responsibilities,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott requested emergency federal assistance after the state spent more than $3 billion in state funding for resources at the southern border, according to the letter. Abbott said the Biden administration\u2019s immigration policies led to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/migrants-haiti-overwhelm-officials-del-rio-texas\/\">thousands of migrants<\/a> arriving in Del Rio, Texas, and overwhelming local law enforcement officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-requests-federal-emergency-declaration-from-president-biden-for-state-of-texas-in-response-to-border-crisis\">according<\/a> to a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year alone, the State of Texas has obligated over $3 billion to address the ongoing surge of migrants and secure the southern border with little to no assistance from the federal government,\u201d the letter said. \u201cThese costs include labor, equipment, supply, and contract costs for multiple state agencies.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/haitian-migrant-release-us-del-rio-texas\/\">(RELATED: Haitian Migrants Are Being Released Across The US: REPORT)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abbott pledged to send more state resources to the border to \u201caddress the chaos in Del Rio created by the Biden Administration,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-texas-will-continue-surging-state-resources-to-secure-the-border\">according<\/a> to a statement released on Tuesday. The Texas legislature passed a bill allocating an additional $2 billion in state funding for border security.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Texas House Republicans asked President Joe Biden to declare an emergency at the southern border, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday.Fourteen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804957","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\/804957","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=804957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804957\/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=804957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}