Judges and sheriffs from Texas counties are calling on the governor to declare the US-Mexico border crisis an “invasion.”
Officials say that classifying the illegal crossings as an invasion would give affected states more legal avenues to deal with the problem, which is worse than ever.
“America doesn’t know what’s happening here. And we’re here to try and change that. We don’t want to lose America. The Biden administration won’t do a thing about it. They could stop this thing this hour. They could stop it now,” said Kinney County judge Tully Shahan.
“…Their plan is to keep bringing them in. Open borders… If we keep our open borders, we’re not going to have a nation.”
In the month of May alone, over 239,000 individuals (among those accounted for) crossed the border illegally into the US from Mexico. The 2021 fiscal year saw 1.7 million migrants processed by Customs and Border Protection — a figure that’s expected to be surpassed this year.
Numerous sheriffs and other judges from various counties came up to the podium to express how dire the situation has become.
“Governor Abbott, we’re asking you to step up more than you have and give us the resources we need,” said one.
“… Let’s deal with these people at the border and not after they’ve come into the interior of our state and our country.”
One Sheriff, Roy Boyd, said the illegal crossings support modern-day “slave trading,” with the Mexican cartel owning the migrants. He further claimed that 1-in-3 women who come across are sexually assaulted along the way — a statistic that the Migration Policy Institute might suggest is low.
