Texas refuses to comply with Biden administration's cease-and-desist letter about border access
Texas refuses to comply with Biden administration's cease-and-desist letter about border access
The Department of Homeland Security had directed the state to stop blocking the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to roughly 2½ miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Department of Homeland Security had directed the state to stop blocking the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to roughly 2½ miles of the U.S.-Mexico border
Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico.
In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state to “cease and desist” its takeover of Shelby Park, an epicenter of southwest border illegal immigration in Eagle Pass.
"Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory, and I will continue defending those lawful efforts in court," Paxton wrote.
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everything is now a state by state issue regardless of federal anyway - medical and other insurances such as vehicle policies, what health care you are allowed to receive, wages, how the justice system works, cannabis, food assistance, etcetera
if the federal government wants it otherwise we should have a federal set of laws we all have to live by no matter the state line we cross
biden is barking up the wrong tree seeing as how he is a state's rights supporter
Keep in mind that you can add "but states rights" to any situation. Sadly, that's part of the US religion and people will defend their ability to treat their own residents horridly.
Is it really? How about we cut off ALL federal aid and services?
I can’t believe you actually said we should have fed laws. You must be a troll.
states in the end decide if they want federal aid and services such as SNAP
US lets the states decide because it has devolved into a state's right over federal country
That’s not what you said.
You said there should be federal laws. There are. Try taking pot across state lines via airplane and see if you get caught and which laws you get charged under.
depends on the state lines you cross and how that state or now city feels about it
some cities in the US are half illegal and half recreational and or medical so sometimes it is a half of the city line
the states also decide if they want to use federal or state laws when convicting not the federal government
anyone who has extensively travelled the US will see past the HOA looking veil
federal laws have devolved into something that allows states full control
Claiming asylum is not illegal. It's not up to the state's border defence jarheads to make that call. Meanwhile people who have a legal right to claim asylum (whether successful or not) face Draconian measures in an effort to dissuade those looking for help with violence and death.
But that doesn't account for all the reasons that people might want to cross the border. Some come for the seasonal work. That seasonal work is only available because employers are willing to hire them. Perhaps we should punish the people generating the demand for illegal workers rather than those looking for the work? Reduce the demand, reduce the border transgressions. Again, border control is a weak reason to enact violence on the poor and desperate.
But sure, invoke 'states rights' and muddy the conversation with a bunch of disassociated issues. The tactics of bad faith discussion are well understood.