{"id":75456,"date":"2021-12-20T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75456"},"modified":"2021-12-20T13:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:32:44","slug":"75456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75456","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-border-crisis-rages-armed-texans-arrive-round-illegal-aliens\/\">As Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Rages, Armed Texans Arrive to Round Up Illegal Aliens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Texas law is attracting armed groups with body armor, long guns and high tech drones to the border.<\/p>\n<p>Some local officials are welcoming them, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/in-a-texas-border-town-armed-groups-arrive-to-look-for-migrants-11639668989?mod=trending_now_news_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/texas-jails-fill-with-migrants-as-border-arrests-overwhelm-courts-11636376402?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new law<\/a> allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing. The armed groups intend to find the illegals and deliver them to law enforcement officials for arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Kinney County sheriff has been working with these groups for months. Former Border Patrol Agent Brad Coe has been on the lookout for help in deterring illegal immigration. \u201cThe whole premise is if [migrants] know they\u2019ll be arrested, they\u2019ll go somewhere else,\u201d Coe said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Not everybody is happy with the idea of private citizens working with local authorities to stem the tide of illegal immigrants streaming across the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>A slew of organizations, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aclu-accidentally-admits-blm-violent-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU<\/a>, filed a complaint to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parents-protest-bidens-doj-labeling-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Justice<\/a>\u00a0over the matter. They are requesting that the DOJ scrutinize Texas state agencies and local governments that are involved in the effort to arrest illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t like the fact that Kinney County officials have either welcomed the groups or offered their tacit support. Kinney County has also looked into working with private security companies to deal with the overwhelming problem of illegal immigration Texas has been dealing with month after month.<\/p>\n<p>In an October interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2021\/10\/27\/gov-greg-abbott-r-tx-biden-administration-continues-to-ignore-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Benson<\/a>, Texas Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-reveals-biden-lying-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Abbott<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-supreme-court-allows-texas-pro-life-law-remain-effect-dismisses-biden-administration-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration<\/a>\u00a0continues to ignore the border, continue to promote these open border policies that are a complete disaster [and] is one of the reasons why even the Democrats disagree with Biden on his border policy and independents and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/republicans-saving-republic-democratic-tyranny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans<\/a>\u00a0view what Biden is doing is completely a catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn\u00a0sent a letter to President Biden supporting Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s disaster declaration concerning the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last eight months alone,\u201d wrote the senators, \u201cover a million individuals crossed illegally into the United States, which is now on pace for over 2 million illegal crossings for 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one example, Del Rio, Texas, saw more than 1,000 illegal immigrants crossing the border per day.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Over 1,000 migrants per day illegally crossing border, officials say\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PbxCfMOe188?feature=oembed\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt\u2019s hasn\u2019t gotten any better.According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/17\/border-agents-stopped-173k-illegal-immigrants-last-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>, U.S. Border agents alone apprehended more than 173,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in November. After a three month decline, that\u2019s an an increase of more than 5 percent. The number doesn\u2019t take into account the illegals who avoided authorities altogether.<\/p>\n<p>If the federal government won\u2019t help, what are Texans to do?<\/p>\n<p>It boils down to a state\u2019s right to defend itself from intruders. And it\u2019s nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Vickers, chairman of the Texas Border Volunteers, pointed out that Texans have been defending the border since 1823, the year the Texas Rangers was instituted to protect Texas settlers and their land. \u201cWe\u2019re still dealing with the bad guys from Mexico,\u201d Vickers told the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/04\/20\/this-is-a-war-meet-the-texas-ranchers-forming-their-own-border-militia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThis is a war,\u201d Vickers stated, talking about smugglers who traffic in drugs and migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Self-defense is a sacred right. It applies to states as well as individuals. In the highly publicized trial of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jury-reaches-verdict-murder-trial-kyle-rittenhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>, the defendant was found not guilty by means of self-defense for shooting three men, two of them fatally. Rittenhouse was patrolling the streets of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-announces-sending-national-guard-kenosha-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenosha, Wisconsin<\/a>, to protect people and their property and to offer medical assistance to those who needed it during the riots of August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Why was Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha that night? Because law enforcement officials were in short supply.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-new-mexico-sheriff-says-will-not-enforce-orders-subvert-constitutional-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constitutional right<\/a>\u00a0to protect its borders from invasion, as outlined by Kinney County attorney Brent Smith in an article for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/texas\/op-ed-texas-as-a-sovereign-state-has-the-right-to-defend-its-own-borders\/article_7e5999da-d2da-11eb-96e9-bb2b27184489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Center Square<\/a>.\u00a0 The federal government has a Constitutional obligation to help Texas. It is not a voluntary. Still, Biden fails to act in any decisive manner to the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The feds aren\u2019t holding up their end of the deal, so Texans are doing what they have to do to protect their state and their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>It is a dangerous move, but what other choice do they have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Rages, Armed Texans Arrive to Round Up Illegal Aliens A new Texas law is attracting armed groups with body armor, long guns and high tech drones to the border. Some local officials are welcoming them, according to\u00a0The Wall Street Journal. The\u00a0new law allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing. 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