It Begins… Texas Border Battle🚨Texas Vs Biden Admin over MigrantCrisis / Federalizing National Guard

Summary

Tensions are rising between Texas and the Biden administration over border security. Texas is defying federal orders to remove razor wire at the border, with support from 25 GOP governors. The White House is considering federalizing the Texas National Guard, which could lead to a confrontation between state and federal authorities. Congressman Fallon warns this would be a mistake, blaming Biden for the border crisis. He and Trump say proposed Senate compromises lack substance. Fallon insists Republicans want solutions, not political issues, while Democrats accuse the GOP of exploiting the crisis for political gain.

Takeaways

• 😡 Tensions are rising between Texas and the Biden administration over border security.
• 😡 Texas is defying federal orders to remove razor wire from the border.
• 🤝 25 Republican states are backing Texas' border actions.
• 😡 The White House is considering federalizing the Texas National Guard.
• 😡 This could lead to a direct clash between federal and state forces.
• 😡 Trump says Senate border discussions will collapse without stricter policies.
• 👮 Republicans want to reinstate Trump-era border policies like 'Remain in Mexico'.
• 🤐 Democrats accuse Republicans of exploiting the border crisis for political gain.
• 😡 The crisis has led to nearly 9 million illegal border crossings under Biden.
• 😕 A confrontation seems likely this weekend as the standoff continues.

Q & A

What action is the White House considering regarding the Texas National Guard?

The White House is considering federalizing the Texas National Guard, which would put them under federal control rather than state control.

What has Texas been doing at the border that defies federal orders?

Texas has been installing razor wire at the border and blocking federal agents from accessing parts of the border in Shelby County to remove the razor wire, defying federal orders.

How many other states have pledged support to Texas in its border actions?

25 other states have signed a letter pledging support to Texas in its actions to install razor wire and secure the border.

What past precedent is mentioned regarding federalizing National Guard troops?

The last time any National Guard troops were federalized was during the Eisenhower Administration and the Little Rock Nine integration crisis.

What Trump-era immigration policy does the Congressman say would reduce illegal border crossings?

The Congressman says reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed would reduce illegal crossings by 70%.

What concrete solutions does the Congressman propose to resolve the crisis?

The Congressman proposes reinstating Remain in Mexico, building additional barriers at the border, and implementing expedited removal of those crossing illegally.

How does the Congressman respond to claims Republicans just want a political issue?

The Congressman denies this claim entirely, saying Republicans urgently want the crisis resolved and that Democrats are the ones pandering to their base.

What happened after a Supreme Court order to remove the razor wire?

After the Supreme Court order allowing federal agents to start removing the razor wire, Texas instead started installing more razor wire.

When did the current border crisis begin according to the Congressman?

The Congressman says the current border crisis exploded in February 2021.

What does the Congressman predict will happen this weekend at the border?

The Congressman predicts there will likely be some kind of resolution reached or confrontation between state and federal authorities over the razor wire.

Outlines

00:00

😱 Confrontation Feared as Texas Digs In on Border Control and Rejects Biden Administration Demands

Paragraph 1 discusses the potential confrontation between the Texas National Guard and federalized troops at the border if the Biden administration federalizes the Guard, as Texas continues installing razor wire despite federal demands. It notes Texas has started arresting illegal border crossers in Shelby Park, with 25 states pledging support for Texas against the federal injunction to remove the razor wire.

05:02

😡 Strong Political and Policy Disagreements Between Texas and Biden Administration Over Border Crisis

Paragraph 2 continues discussing the possible federalization of the Texas National Guard by Biden. It notes this would be politically disastrous and bad policy for Biden. Congressman Fallon says Trump-era border policies like Remain in Mexico worked and Biden should reinstate them to resolve the crisis.

Keywords

💡Border crisis

The border crisis refers to the surge of migrants attempting to cross the US-Mexico border illegally. This has created tensions between the Biden administration and Republican states like Texas. The script shows the crisis worsening, with recent numbers of 300,000 people crossing in a month.

💡Razor wire

Razor wire refers to barbed wire installed by Texas officials along parts of the border, intended to make illegal border crossing more difficult. The Biden administration sued to remove this wire to enable border agents' access.

💡Federalizing

There is talk of the Biden administration federalizing, or taking over, the Texas National Guard. This would create a direct clash between these federalized troops and Texas state authorities also present on the border.

💡Confrontation

The dispute over border control between the Biden administration and Texas is escalating tensions significantly, raising the chances of a direct confrontation between federal and state forces over immigration policy and access to the border area.

💡Shelby Park

Shelby Park seems to refer to a specific part of the Texas border area. Texas has started arresting migrants attempting to cross here. The state is refusing to provide full federal access to this border zone.

💡Wait in Mexico

Reinstating the Trump-era 'Wait in Mexico' policy for asylum seekers is cited by multiple Republican voices as a key potential solution. This allowed migrants to be detained in Mexico while awaiting immigration hearings.

💡Barriers

Republicans are pushing Biden to build more physical barriers along parts of the southern border lacking structures presently. Democrats avoid calling these 'walls' but Republicans say terminology is irrelevant.

💡Expedited removal

Expedited removal refers to fast-tracking and deporting people who illegally enter the US. Republicans want policies expanded to ramp up deportations and deter migrants.

💡Parole

Parole refers to the practice of temporarily releasing asylum seekers into the US pending court dates. Republicans accuse Biden of illegally enabling this practice and enabling migrants disappearing within the US.

💡Eisenhower Administration

The precedent of federalizing state troops goes back decades, with a reference made to Eisenhower taking control over Arkansas' guard to enforce desegregation. This example highlights the extreme nature of any such repeat act.

Highlights

Tensions between Texas and the Biden Administration have reached a boiling point over border security

Texas has started arresting single adults crossing the border illegally into Shelby Park

25 other states have signed a letter backing Texas' border razor wire installation

Presidential hopeful RFK Jr. wrote that states have no choice but to take border security into their own hands with Biden's failure to secure it

The Border Patrol union says the Supreme Court decision will encourage more illegal immigration

White House says the razor wire was obstructing Border Patrol access, not helping

Biden has proposed immigration reform, asked for funding for 1,300 more Border Patrol agents

Biden open to compromises and negotiating on immigration reform

Texas governor refusing federal control of Texas border, installing more razor wire

25 GOP governors backing Texas border actions, blaming Biden administration

Federalizing National Guard could cause direct clash between troops and state authorities

Nearly 9 million crossed border illegally under Biden's watch

Trump-era border policies like Remain in Mexico reduced illegal crossings significantly

Biden has tools to solve crisis but refuses to use them

GOP wants real solutions with teeth - expedited removal, Remain in Mexico, more barriers

Transcripts

are we looking at a new Civil War

Congressman as you may have just heard

the White House is considering

federalizing the Texas National Guard

which could mean a direct Clash at the

border between federalized troops and

the state authorities are we going to

see a

confrontation well Stuart that'd be a

huge mistake for the bid Administration

if they do that now we're learning that

Texas has already started arresting

single adult men and women crossing the

border illegally into Shelby Park

tensions between Texas and the

Administration have reached a boiling

point as the Lone Star State continues

to defy an emergency injunction from the

Supreme Court and block Federal border

agents into the state to cut razor wire

it's been installing over the past few

weeks 25 other states have signed a

letter pledging to support Texas as it

installs razor wire on the southern

border with some sending members of

their own State and National Guard to

assist with the installation process

they wrote We Stand in solidarity with

our fellow Governor Greg Abbott and the

state of Texas in utilizing every tool

and strategy including razor wire fences

to secure the Border we do it in part

because the Biden Administration is

refusing to enforce immigration laws

already on the books and is illegally

allowing Mass parole Across America of

migrants who entered our country

illegally but it wasn't just Republicans

who backed abid's decision to Buck the

feds presidential hopeful RFK Jr wrote

Texas is Right Biden's failure to secure

the Border leaves States no choice but

to take matters into their own hands as

president I will end this humanitarian

crisis once and for all I will secure

the border and destroy the business

model of the drug cartels a country

Without Borders is not a country at all

but not everyone was so gung-ho on the

Texas move to secure the Border why are

you guys making it easier for people to

enter the country

illegally I don't believe we are why do

you think we are well you guys sued to

cut razor wire that was put in place by

Texas officials so that the Border

Patrol could actually do their jobs but

keep going well you want in court so now

what the boorder of Patrol Union

president is saying the Supreme Court's

decision is going to undoubtedly

encourage more illegal immigration do

you guys know better than the border

patrol Union the border patrol needed

access and that's why we sued to get rid

of that uh razor wire so that they could

do their jobs and you know what would

also help them do their jobs Peter more

border patrol agents there's an idea and

if you go back to the supplementary

requests that we put in there's money in

there for some, 1300 additional border

patrol agents we want to help them do

their jobs we want to give them more

resources and the answer we kept get

keep keep getting back from House

Republicans is no no no does Razer wire

work does razor wire work for what does

it work for the border patrol to allow

them to have the access they need to be

able to uh to better process people that

are trying to get across the border I

don't think so and that's why we asked

for it to be

removed but what is the president's plan

this is happening just weeks after

300,000 people came into this country

over the southern border illegally the

razor wire officials down there think

was keeping some of them out and you

guys just sued and one to remove it on

behalf of the border patrol who needed

who needed to have better access to but

look let me go back to your other

question and I I know I'm running short

on time so I won't I won't filibuster

here but what's the

plan please look at the stuff we've put

forward the immigration reform uh

legislation that the president put

forward on day one the work we're doing

in the region just last week we had uh

Mexican officials here to talk about how

together we have and will continue to

try to stem the flow of migrants you

mentioned the the numbers no question

there's a lot of people trying to make

that Journey but it's it's not just to

the United States it's to other

countries in the world in the in the

region we're seeing historic movement

not not since World War II have we seen

this many people on the Move in this

Hemisphere and the Mexicans are really

stepping up and trying to do the more

more on their southern border to keep

that flow going north lower and we have

seen in recent weeks some success at

that the the the idea that we don't have

a plan or a strategy or we're not taking

this seriously is just not born out by

the facts and you know again if the if

the folks in the on the house Republican

side are are serious about border

security and they claim they are then

they should act on the supplemental

request and you know let's negotiate

this in good faith the president has

said he's willing to make uh compromises

he's willing to negotiate in good faith

so so let's let's have that discussion

Texas governor Greg avot refusing to

give up control of the Texas border to

Federal officials saying the state will

not give federal agents full access to

Shelby Park today that ignores a

deadline set by the Biden Administration

which which is today instead Abit is

installing more razor wire following a

supreme court order allowing federal

agents to start removing it Tex is now

receiving support from 25 Republican

Governors all backing Governor abbots

border actions blaming the Biden

Administration for the crisis

Congressman as you may have just heard

the White House is considering

federalizing the Texas National Guard

which could mean a direct Clash at the

border between federalized troops and

the state Authority is are we going to

see a

confrontation well steuart that' be a

huge mistake for the bid Administration

if they do that the last time any

National Guard troops were Federal

federalized was during the Eisenhower

Administration and the Little Rock N and

if Joe Biden does this he maybe you know

go down in history is the Mexican drug

cartel 9 million because there have been

almost 9 million people that have

crossed the border illegally over the

last three years under his watch so I

think politically it's a disaster I

think from a policy standpoint it would

be a a horrible move but we'll we'll see

but this Administration has done both

those things they've made bad poly

decisions and they've made bad pill on

well how do you see this playing out

there's got to be some kind of

resolution at some stage here how what's

the

resolution well what would be wonderful

is some Trump era policies worked very

well wait in Mexico I was down in the

Border stew a few weeks ago and the

Customs and Border Protection agents

were telling us if Joe Biden just

instituted the weight meico policy that

we would see a 70% reduction in the flow

of illegals to our border but he refuses

to do to do that he has the power at he

has the tools at his disposal right now

under executive authority to solve this

not even crisis anymore really it's a

cataclysm he chooses not to it's it it

boggles my mind the the Senate

discussion Senate border discussion

looks likely to collapse because Trump

says it's meaningless that's the impact

of Trump's surge on Congress he he's

going to wreck and I'm saying this is

bad or good but he is going to make

those talks collapse on the

border well quite frankly St where we

were before there wasn't anything that

was you know there was no real teeth in

that agreement it was uh Widow dressing

quite frankly we need you know the teeth

that we need in there we need expedited

removal we need weight in Mexico we need

to build additional if Joe Biden wants

to call him barriers and not walls I

could care less but we need barriers

along the southern border those are the

concrete things that will help mitigate

this crisis dramatically and they those

weren't in the agreement anyhow so I I

do agree with President Trump we got to

get serious and put some teeth into

these uh compromises the Democrats say

look the Republicans are just spinning

this out they don't want a solution they

want a political issue for the election

and they're exploiting this as a

political issue what's your response to

that they couldn't be more wrong and you

know what if the Democrats didn't have

double standards Stuart they wouldn't

have any standards at all that is

ridiculous I'm an American I'm a Texan I

want to see this border crisis uh s

forth with we were talking about it back

when it exploded in February of 2021 and

it's really simple hey Democrats

encourage Joe Biden to reinstitute

weight in Mexico that will solve it

right there I don't know one Republican

and Congress that doesn't want to see

this resolved that's just a political

pandering to their leftwing base it's

not true and it's quite frankly absurd

I'm going I'd like to see how this

thing's going to pan out over this

weekend because some kind of resolution

or confrontation likely to happen con

from Fallon thanks for joining us this

morning have a great weekend see you

soon