Greg Orders Texas National Guard To Seize Park in Eagle Pass, Bars Border Patrol/CBP

[Biff Tannen 45476]

5 hours ago, Heisenberg said:

Wake the fuck up.  Look at everything else Lankford ever said or did.  One for-show-only “right” (knowing it would result in nothing happening) doesn’t make up for a lifetime of being a piece of shit MAGA fuck.

I’m inclined to believe this. His voting record put him as one of the most “conservative” in Congress.  Now that he’s going against the cult in this instance doesn’t mean he isn’t a cult member.  It could just mean he’s an opportunist. I could be wrong, but someone please refute that. I’m willing to learn.

[Heisenberg 162]

Before Lankford got into politics, he was an ordained Southern Baptist preacher in charge of Falls Creek, the Oklahoma Southern Baptist youth camp, for over 10 years.  The Southern Baptist Church is currently embroiled in a huge pedo’ing scandal.

[tx 3 putt 76158]

 

[DigglerontheHoof 21022]

4 hours ago, Heisenberg said:

Before Lankford got into politics, he was an ordained Southern Baptist preacher in charge of Falls Creek, the Oklahoma Southern Baptist youth camp, for over 10 years.  The Southern Baptist Church is currently embroiled in a huge pedo’ing scandal.

[Thrawn 538]

6 hours ago, Heisenberg said:

Before Lankford got into politics, he was an ordained Southern Baptist preacher in charge of Falls Creek, the Oklahoma Southern Baptist youth camp, for over 10 years. 

I did not know that. I have rather fond memories of Falls Creek. Not the church part of it obviously, but let's say the social aspect. You just can't cram that many young boys and girls together and not expect them to make their way together. Sometimes in some biblical ways. Not that I would know anything about that last part. Seriously, I was a dork with zero game. Still had fun though.

[South Austin 52037]

7 minutes ago, Thrawn said:

You just can't cram that many young boys and girls together and not expect them to make their way together. Sometimes in some biblical ways. Not that I would know anything about that last part. Seriously, I was a dork with zero game. Still had fun though.

Hey, every church camp needs a Case McCoy.

[4th&Five 41457]

7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Back the Blue!!!

[royiv 9131]

2 hours ago, Thrawn said:

I did not know that. I have rather fond memories of Falls Creek. Not the church part of it obviously, but let's say the social aspect. You just can't cram that many young boys and girls clergy together and not expect them to make their way together. Sometimes in some biblical ways. Not that I would know anything about that last part. Seriously, I was a dork with zero game. Still had fun though.

Fixed

[RDCanecutter 26238]

10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Damn woke FBI. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20341]

"Them migrants have to be stopped because they're bringing drugs into the country!" 

Right-wing bloggers in Eagle Pass arrested after somebody points a gun at migrants. Cocaine, THC edibles, marijuana found in their car.  

https://www.texasobserver.org/celeste-sparks-pena-ahuyon-bloggers-eagle-pass/






 

[atomheartbevo 89362]

Greg gonna end up on Trump’s shit list.

https://www.ketk.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-abbott-hosts-texas-house-representatives-at-eagle-pass-for-border-security-conference/

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“If you look at the amount of wall already constructed and the amount of wall that is going to be under construction. Texas will have built more of the Trump border wall than even Trump built in the state of Texas,” Abbott said. 

 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

On 2/9/2024 at 1:04 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Greg gonna end up on Trump’s shit list.

https://www.ketk.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-abbott-hosts-texas-house-representatives-at-eagle-pass-for-border-security-conference/

 

abbott has a much bigger war chest than trump, that’s why trump dislikes him

Edited February 17 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Maga GqP concentration camp for the browns incoming ….

 

the plan is to let blue handle this 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20341]

This guy is pretty great.  He wants to stop the invasion, too.
 

 

 

[atomheartbevo 89362]

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-set-to-spend-140m-on-building-running-new-border-base-camp/

 

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Texas expects to spend more than $140 million to build and initially run a base camp for soldiers stationed along the border with Mexico, according to records obtained Friday by KXAN.

A purchase order from the Texas Military Department provided a more detailed look into the cost of the 80-acre facility currently under construction in the border community of Eagle Pass, which is at the epicenter of tensions between state leaders and the federal government over immigration enforcement. Gov. Greg Abbott announced the base camp project during a news conference one week ago, and at the time he only said the expense would be “minimal.” 

$140 million.

Greg says its expanse would be “minimal”.

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The record shows the state awarded the contract for this project to Team Housing Solutions, a company based in New Braunfels. According to the purchase order, the state is anticipating the total cost for construction to be $38,529,140.45.

It’s estimated the cost then to run the base camp will be $14,553,212 per month. With the initial contract set to last from Feb. 8 to Sept. 7, Texas can expect to spend $101,872,484 during that time to keep it going.  The purchase order stipulates the state also has options to renew the contract for two one-year periods after that initial seven-month period, so the expenses could grow even higher into the hundreds of millions.

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

So whose cousin got awarded the contract?

[atomheartbevo 89362]

Little Ronnie wants to remind people, he exists. 

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/florida-governor-sends-additional-law-enforcement-to-texas-border/

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis bid farewell to over a hundred members of the Florida National Guard and highway patrol as the troops head to Texas’ southern border Friday.

“This is part of a years-long effort for us to help do what the federal government has refused to do,” he said in a press conference. DeSantis repeatedly thanked the agents, who will join 90 members of Florida law enforcement already at the border. He said many of the troops volunteered for the trip and have participated in multiple deployments to Texas, which can vary in length.

You’d think the Jade Helm idiots would not be thrilled to have other states send their law enforcement into Texas,

[Stilicho 1397]

3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Little Ronnie wants to remind people, he exists. 

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/florida-governor-sends-additional-law-enforcement-to-texas-border/

You’d think the Jade Helm idiots would not be thrilled to have other states send their law enforcement into Texas,

Turns out the Gastrapo was in Bastropo all along.

[Satchel 6908]

On 2/8/2024 at 12:54 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

Magalitia.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20341]

[High Plains Drifter 10970]

On 2/9/2024 at 1:04 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Greg gonna end up on Trump’s shit list.

https://www.ketk.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-abbott-hosts-texas-house-representatives-at-eagle-pass-for-border-security-conference/

 

 

NPR reported this morning DOtarD mentioned abbot as a possible running, er rolling mate. 

 

 

[Ghost of LL 15348]

34 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

NPR reported this morning DOtarD mentioned abbot as a possible running, er rolling mate. 

 

 

We could only be so lucky.  

Greg has even less charisma than DeSantis.  He'd be a complete shitshow on the national stage.

[atomheartbevo 89362]

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/5th-circuit-rules-texas-immigration-enforcement-law-can-take-effect/
 

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An appeals court ordered that a Texas law that gives state police the ability to arrest and effectively deport migrants will be allowed to take effect in the coming days, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes. 

On Saturday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocked Senate Bill 4 from going into effect. 

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U.S. District Judge David Ezra’s issued a preliminary injunction halting the law last Thursday, saying it violates the Constitution’s supremacy clause and is in conflict with the nation’s immigration laws.

The appeals court did not give explanation for its decision and set seven days before its order takes effect, giving the Department of Justice time to appeal. If the Supreme Court does not take up the case within the week, SB 4 will take effect while the legal battle over its constitutionality continues. 

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Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 4 in December, touting it as a historic measure to empower Texas state and local law enforcement to control immigration — a power currently only reserved for federal authorities. 

The law creates a new state crime for crossing into Texas outside of a port of entry, punishable as a Class B misdemeanor. Repeat offenders could face a state jail felony, and state magistrate judges may order them to return to Mexico.

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Opponents have argued the bill violates the supremacy clause under the U.S. Constitution, which gives the federal government ultimate authority in enforcing immigration laws, which has been reinforced by a 2012 landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v. United States. After Arizona passed a similar law to SB 4, the High Court ruled that it is not within state and local police officers’ powers to arrest someone based on their immigration status.

how long before Greg or MAGA law enforcement starts deputizing the militia nutters to engage in this stuff?

Meanwhile, Greg is still offering a taxpayer-funded bus ride from the border to any who make it across, so will that continue?

[Captainant 27309]

What the everloving fuck. Cops can legally profile fucking whoever they want and deport them with no recourse.

Inb4 the supreme court decides to wait to address this issue so that they can really let some blood flow at the border. 

[wildcat09 29187]

Biden should announce that since Abbott believes the immigrants he is bussing across the country are an invading military force, Abbott is by his own tacit admission committing treason as defined by the Constitution.

[4th&Five 41457]

13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Biden should announce that since Abbott believes the immigrants he is bussing across the country are an invading military force, Abbott is by his own tacit admission committing treason as defined by the Constitution.

This. They tell us they’re the most violent army of migrants and we must stop them and the morons cheer. Abbott and Desantis ship them all over the country and the morons cheer. Which is it? 

[atomheartbevo 89362]

22 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What the everloving fuck. Cops can legally profile fucking whoever they want and deport them with no recourse.

Inb4 the supreme court decides to wait to address this issue so that they can really let some blood flow at the border. deport some American citizens who happen to be Hispanic.

Fixed

[thrillhammer 683]

On 2/9/2024 at 1:04 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Greg gonna end up on Trump’s shit list.

https://www.ketk.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-abbott-hosts-texas-house-representatives-at-eagle-pass-for-border-security-conference/

 

but did mexico pay for a dime of it?  promises made, promises broken.

[atomheartbevo 89362]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/politics/texas-immigration-law-supreme-court-appeal/index.html
 

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The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze enforcement of Texas’controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.

Justice Samuel Alito issued the administrative hold, which will block the law from taking effect until March 13. That temporary pause will give the court additional time to review the case but does not necessarily signal which way the court is leaning. (Alito oversees the federal circuit that handled the case.)

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The Biden administration and several immigration groups filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court hours earlier asking the justices to block enforcement of the law.

Without intervention, the law would have gone into effect on the morning of March 10. The Justice Department said that would “profoundly” alter the status quo “that has existed between the United States and the States in the context of immigration for almost 150 years.”

I’m somewhat surprised.

[wildcat09 29187]

They want to give Trump total control over immigration law.

[tx 3 putt 76158]

Border crisis !!!!!!!

 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20341]

[atomheartbevo 89362]

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/supreme-court-extends-block-on-texas-law-allowing-state-police-to-arrest-migrants-at-border

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The United States Supreme Court extended a block on a Texas immigration law Monday that would give Texas police the right to arrest migrants at the border, after a challenge by the Biden Administration. 

Justice Samuel Alito issued the ruling against the law that was originally scheduled to take effect on March 10th. This is the third time Alito has extended the block on the Texas law, called Senate Bill 4, which is now extended indefinitely. The final decision on the law will now go to the full Supreme Court, but the timeline on a decision is unknown. 

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Disgraced Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has said in defense of SB4 that the Constitution "recognizes that Texas has the sovereign right to defend itself from violent transnational cartels that flood the state with fentanyl, weapons, and all manner of brutality.”

The Biden Administration sued to block the Texas law, stating that it violated Federal supremacy on enforcement of immigration and could harm international relations. 

Hot Wheels and Kenny Wayne going to defy the MAGA Supreme Court?

[atomheartbevo 89362]

Well, deporting people is back on the plate for Texas law enforcement and probably “deputized” militias

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-begin-enforcing-controversial-immigration-law/index.html
 

[InkaUtexas 25423]

Man, if they fuck with my breakfast tacos over this shit I am not going to be a happy camper.

[Woland 729]

Well, deporting people is back on the plate for Texas law enforcement and probably “deputized” militias
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-begin-enforcing-controversial-immigration-law/index.html
 

Might get interesting if a militia messes with a Mexican with cartel connections.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33824]

17 minutes ago, Woland said:

Might get interesting if a militia messes with a Mexican with cartel connections.

lol, the cartel would wipe the floor with the Texas Guard or whoever it is Greggie would send. Now the BP has similar equipment, so that would be a fair fight. But ole Joe isn't resorting to that bullshit like sitler is. What happens when they deport or kill a US citizen?

Edited March 19 by Longhorn_Fan68

[C-Man 26989]

But, but, but the illegals!

South Texas town mayor and brother (school board president) busted for cocaine trafficking.

https://amp.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article286866735.html

[Scheiss Meister 8398]

17 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lol, the cartel would wipe the floor with the Texas Guard or whoever it is Greggie would send. Now the BP has similar equipment, so that would be a fair fight. But ole Joe isn't resorting to that bullshit like sitler is. What happens when they deport or kill a US citizen?

They'll just say that he or she shouldn't have looked illegal and should have had their papers on them.

[Gap03 3248]

17 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lol, the cartel would wipe the floor with the Texas Guard or whoever it is Greggie would send. Now the BP has similar equipment, so that would be a fair fight. But ole Joe isn't resorting to that bullshit like sitler is. What happens when they deport or kill a US citizen?

Bro, do you even qualified immunity? Alito will fall all over himself to rule that even militia members have been deputized by SB4 and accordingly are entitled to QI, just like the cops.

[C-Man 26989]

28 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Bro, do you even qualified immunity? Alito will fall all over himself to rule that even militia members have been deputized by SB4 and accordingly are entitled to QI, just like the cops.

It will be Amaud Arbery all over again. And again. And again.

[fattyflattie 4636]

26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

It will be Amaud Arbery all over again. And again. And again.

Where the murderers will die in prison for their crime?   Wouldn’t that be our justice system functioning normally? 

[chainsaw 9831]

3 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Where the murderers will die in prison for their crime?   Wouldn’t that be our justice system functioning normally? 

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/08/greg-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry/

Gov. Greg Abbott backs call for pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Austin protester in 2020

The governor says he asked the Board of Pardons and Paroles to expedite review, recommend clemency one day after Perry was convicted of murder.

[fattyflattie 4636]

Just now, chainsaw said:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/08/greg-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry/

Gov. Greg Abbott backs call for pardon for Daniel Perry, who killed Austin protester in 2020

The governor says he asked the Board of Pardons and Paroles to expedite review, recommend clemency one day after Perry was convicted of murder.

Oh I read Ahmaud Arbery.  To which I directly replied.  Any other cases involving two armed men of the same race in a emotionally charged situation from 4 states away wasnt considered.   

[Gap03 3248]

5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Where the murderers will die in prison for their crime?   Wouldn’t that be our justice system functioning normally? 

That was a bad example.  I'm thinking something more like this, but worse, cuz we're Texas ...

Qualified immunity: Ohio police killed Luke Stewart (usatoday.com)

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Luke Stewart, a 23-year-old Black man, was asleep in his parked car on March 13, 2017, when he was approached by police officers Matthew Rhodes and Louis Catalani. He was parked legally in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland, and he wasn't posing a danger to anyone.

Catalani knocked on Luke’s window, startling him awake. They did not announce themselves as officers. Luke sat up and started the car. Catalani and Rhodes immediately opened Luke's car doors and reached inside to forcibly remove him. Catalani grabbed Luke’s arm, and he wrapped his arm around Luke’s head and pulled, while Rhodes pushed from the passenger side. 

Scared, Luke attempted to drive away, but Rhodes jumped into the passenger seat. Luke looked at Rhodes and asked, “Why are you in my car?”

Rhodes attacked Luke. He punched him, stunned him with a Taser six times, then used the Taser to strike him in the head. Luke never hit back. Moments later, Rhodes shot Luke five times, killing him. Rhodes had been in the car with Luke for only about one minute before he opened fire.

Rhodes had no reason to jump into Luke's car, let alone to use deadly force against him. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a jury could find that Rhodes’ decision to shoot Luke had violated his constitutional rights. However, even acknowledging this, the court dismissed Luke’s civil rights lawsuit. Why? Because of the hotly debated, court-created doctrine of qualified immunity. 

In summary, a poorly-drafted, poorly-thought out law + loose cannons enforcing it + judiciary run amok = lots of innocent dead people. 

It's a completely foreseeable outcome, but the GQP (and Fatty) will still manage to act surprised when it comes to pass, despite repeated warnings.

 

[Captainant 27309]

15 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Where the murderers will die in prison for their crime?   Wouldn’t that be our justice system functioning normally? 

Just to make a point - there was ALMOST no prosecution of that murder. The good ol boy system almost buried it and if it weren't for the nationwide protests for BlackLivesMatter and their own fuckup to post the video as a brag some weeks after the murder, it very likely would have been swept under the rug. 

I just don't see that as an example of things going right and something to repeat. That's the safeguards barely catching the  abusers, not the normal and timely procession of justice.

Edited March 20 by Captainant

[aggie08 21379]

13 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Where the murderers will die in prison for their crime?   Wouldn’t that be our justice system functioning normally? 

...because the murder was videotaped. 

[chainsaw 9831]

7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Oh I read Ahmaud Arbery.  To which I directly replied.  Any other cases involving two armed men of the same race in a emotionally charged situation from 4 states away wasnt considered.   

You're forgetting where we are. Texas. Where the guy in the title of the thread can give special "fast track" treatment to the convicted murderers he prefers and the state government will eagerly comply.

[YGIFS 19449]

So who do you call to report a suspected undocumented immigrant?  Asking for a friend.  

[fattyflattie 4636]

4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Just to make a point - there was ALMOST no prosecution of that murder. The good ol boy system almost buried it and if it weren't for the nationwide protests for BlackLivesMatter and their own fuckup to post the video as a brag some weeks after the murder, it very likely would have been swept under the rug. 

I just don't see that as an example of things going right and something to repeat. That's the safeguards barely catching the  abusers, not the normal and timely procession of justice.

Correct. And I was on the first or second page if that thread saying burn the guys down.   Still, people killing people, then being held responsible for their act is how it’s supposed to work.   I can’t speak to the asshole with an AK at low ready getting shot by an asshole hiding his piece in a car. Seems like FAFO applies well there, where it did not in Abery’s case. 

2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

So who do you call to report a suspected undocumented immigrant?  Asking for a friend.  

Elon…