Military and state police officials have descended upon the U.S. border with Mexico ahead of the termination of the Title 42 immigration rule and an expected wave of illegal migration.
Troops with the Texas National Guard and accompanying support vehicles have arrived in the border city of El Paso, according to the Washington Examiner.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November declared an “invasion” and invoked constitutional powers to respond to the crisis, with which he asserts the federal authorities have largely failed to deal.
Abbott asserted at the time that deploying troops to the border would fall within his emergency powers, and said he would also build border walls, deploy gunboats, and send other resources to border posts to manage the influx. Moreover, he claimed he was empowered to label drug cartels as terrorist organizations and to negotiate with foreign entities on his own to resolve the crisis.The governor’s latest deployment […]
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