Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> announced this week that he has created a new position in his administration to battle President Joe Biden&#8217;s continued illegal immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
The announcement comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had 251,487 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-shatters-all-time-record-for-number-of-illegal-alien-encounters-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encounters</a> with illegal aliens last month, the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history.
Last month’s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year.
December’s numbers mean that the Biden administration has now experienced ten straight months of 200,000+ illegal alien encounters per month on the southern border.
&#8220;For nearly two years, the State of Texas has taken unprecedented, historic action under Operation Lone Star in response to the Biden Administration&#8217;s refusal to secure the border,&#8221; <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-new-texas-border-czar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Abbott. &#8220;To continue doing what no other state in the history of our country has done to secure the border, I hired Mike Banks as the State of Texas&#8217; first-ever Border Czar.&#8221;
&#8220;As an award-winning Border Patrol Agent, with decades of federal law enforcement and border security experience, Mike is the perfect choice to oversee Texas&#8217; fight against the surge of illegal immigration, lethal drugs, and deadly weapons flowing into our state and nation,&#8221; Abbott continued. &#8220;I have no doubt that Mike&#8217;s strong record of leadership and wealth of experience will provide Texans—and Americans—the level of border security expertise they deserve from a proper Border Czar.&#8221;
Banks said, &#8220;Protecting our nation’s border is something I have dedicated the last 23 years of my life to, and I am very passionate about it. I look forward to strengthening our relationships with law enforcement partners and the community, leveraging all that we can to further protect our great state of Texas and the United States.&#8221;
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/texas-names-border-czar-who-wants-to-make-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that when Banks was asked what his role was, he responded, “For me, the #1 priority is to make the State of Texas the least desirable place for illegal immigration to cross.&#8221;

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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott went viral when he tweeted a brutal jab during the Dallas Cowboys playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
Abbott, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair, <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1617318243043086337?s=20&amp;t=ghStC9WkGe9ERJNzNpOq_g">took to Twitter</a> after Cowboys kicker Brett Maher failed to convert an extra point when it was blocked by 49ers defensive lineman Samson Ebukam, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/23/texas-governor-greg-abbott-trolls-brett-maher-cowboys-49ers-nfl-playoffs/">TMZ</a> reported. San Francisco ended up winning the game and advancing to the NFC Championship.
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Brett Maher is 1/6 on PATs this post season after missing here
If this kick wasn’t blocked, it still wouldn’t have been good. <a href="https://t.co/Dd9Wl7zIST">pic.twitter.com/Dd9Wl7zIST</a>
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&#8220;I swear, I can kick as good as the Dallas Cowboys kicker,&#8221; Abbott tweeted to his more than one million followers.
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I swear, I can kick as good as the Dallas Cowboys kicker.
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1617318243043086337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And Abbott wasn&#8217;t the only person who criticized the Cowboys&#8217; kicker. Several accounts flooded the social media platform with videos and memes mocking Maher.
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Jerry Jones to Brett Maher in the Cowboys locker room at halftime… <a href="https://t.co/bcSYi5ER75">pic.twitter.com/bcSYi5ER75</a>
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Maher has struggled in the playoffs this season, missing five extra point attempts in the past two games, including four on January 16 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He has the second most missed extra point attempts in NFL playoff history.
However, the Cowboys kicker did manage to nail two field goals on Sunday, a 25-yarder in the third quarter and a 43-yarder in the fourth. He has made 12 consecutive field goal attempts.
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-49ers-dallas-cowboys-nfl-sports-football-eb7e3a98a43c901478292c0f8875eef0">According</a> to The Associated Press, there was a brief altercation before the game when some 49ers players attempted to disrupt Maher while he was warming up.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/can-you-cut-a-guy-at-halftime-peyton-manning-reacts-to-cowboys-kicker-missing-third-straight-extra-point">&#8216;Can You Cut A Guy At Halftime?&#8217;: Peyton Manning Reacts To Cowboys Kicker Missing Third Straight Extra Point</a>

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Governor <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> (R-TX) vowed to back legislation prohibiting <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a>, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean citizens and entities from purchasing land in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a>.
The <a href="https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&amp;Bill=SB147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, submitted two months ago by Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, states that citizens, corporations, and government agencies of the four nations “may not purchase or otherwise acquire title to real property” in the state. Abbott <a href="https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1614686215676084226?s=46&amp;t=5pnr5c_q-1wYl27TgiOaWw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> on Sunday that he would endorse the legislation, which has not yet been voted upon by lawmakers.
“The past several years have seen more Texans alarmed by the increased acquisition of land by primarily Chinese interests,” Kolkhorst remarked in a <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/new-bill-would-ban-certain-foreign-entities-from-purchasing-land-in-texas/article_d1604e42-94eb-11ed-a16d-57b52d89086c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> provided to the Center Square. “The growing ownership of Texas land by some foreign entities is highly disturbing and raises red flags for many Texans. By comparison, as an American, go try to buy land near a Chinese military base and see how it works out for you. It would never happen there and it shouldn&#8217;t happen here. Passing this law delivers some basic safeguards to ensure Texans remain in control of Texas land.&#8221;
The potential ban on certain overseas entities from owning land in Texas follows legislation <a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB2116/id/2408342/Texas-2021-SB2116-Enrolled.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> two years ago which barred contracts with foreign companies related to critical infrastructure such as cybersecurity systems and electric grids.
Texas currently has the largest amount of foreign-held agricultural land of any other state, according to a <a href="https://www.fsa.usda.gov/Assets/USDA-FSA-Public/usdafiles/EPAS/PDF/2020_afida_annual_report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Department of Agriculture. The more than 4.7 million acres of agricultural land held by foreigners constituted 3.1% of the total land area in the Lone Star State. Between 2019 and 2020, the amount of land controlled by foreigners increased by 6%.
Chinese entities own slightly less than 1% of foreign-held acres in the United States. Canadian investors own roughly 32% of agricultural and non-agricultural land, while citizens of other allies, such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, represent 31% of land holdings by foreigners.
Officials have frequently cited national security risks arising from the Chinese purchase of agricultural land. Lawmakers in South Dakota, who also recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-to-restrict-purchases-of-farmland-by-china-and-other-nations-who-hate-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to prevent Chinese entities from purchasing land in the state, are particularly concerned about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-warns-communist-chinese-entities-buying-farmland-near-u-s-military-bases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquisition</a> of farmland near Ellsworth Air Force Base. The purchase of 300 acres near Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, where some of the nation’s secure drone technology is located, last year by Chinese food company Fufeng Group raised concerns of espionage among authorities.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-vows-to-bar-chinese-communist-party-operatives-from-buying-up-florida-property" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to prevent Chinese entities from purchasing land in the Sunshine State.
The Biden administration opened an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-quietly-probes-chinese-tech-firm-for-possibly-harvesting-data-from-military-bases-missile-silos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> into Chinese telecommunications conglomerate Huawei last year over concerns that cell towers utilizing the company’s devices are transmitting data on military bases and missile silos to the communist nation. A final rule <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-makes-historic-move-to-block-certain-chinese-tech-after-national-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> two months ago by the Federal Communications Commission will block Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, and Dahua from importing certain technology considered a threat to national security.
Beyond commercial and agricultural property, Chinese entities composed 6% of foreign residential real estate purchases between April 2021 and March 2022, according to an <a href="https://www.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/2022-international-transactions-in-us-residential-real-estate-07-18-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from the National Association of Realtors. As much as 8% of residential properties acquired by foreigners were in Texas.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">Texas</a> Governor Greg Abbott (R) hand delivered a letter to President Joe Biden on Sunday during the president&#8217;s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3804693-abbott-hands-biden-letter-blasting-border-visit-as-two-years-too-late/">began</a>. &#8220;Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies.&#8221;
&#8220;Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;This chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted.&#8221;
Abbott noted in the letter how the U.S. border was significantly safer under the previous U.S. administration and that the illegal immigration crisis has exploded to the worst in the history of the country under Biden.
&#8220;Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.&#8221;
Abbott told the president that the crisis was caused because Biden violated his constitutional obligation &#8220;to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws.&#8221;
Abbott advised Biden that when he finished &#8220;the photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso,&#8221; that he needed to:
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<li>You must comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens “shall” be detained, and end the practice of unlawfully paroling aliens en masse.</li>
<li>You must stop sandbagging the implementation of the Remain-in-Mexico policy and Title 42 expulsions, and fully enforce those measures as the federal courts have ordered you to do.</li>
<li>You must aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry, and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with existing federal laws.</li>
<li>You must immediately resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose.</li>
<li>You must designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.</li>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-blasts-bidens-border-visit">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Blasts Biden’s Border Visit</a>

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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott blasted President Joe Biden&#8217;s visit to El Paso on Sunday, claiming that the president has &#8220;no plans&#8221; to enforce immigration laws.
Abbott shared the words during an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;Biden is there today to look at a sanitized El Paso so that he can do all he can to help and aid the illegal immigrants as opposed to stopping them from coming into our country,&#8221; he said.
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President Biden’s border visit today is to a sanitized version of El Paso. 
He has no plans to enforce federal immigration laws. 
Biden’s plan will only entice MORE illegal crossings.
Texas will continue our historic border mission to protect our state. <a href="https://t.co/UelZRg0Zts">pic.twitter.com/UelZRg0Zts</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1612135057979736064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Abbott&#8217;s criticisms also come after authorities in El Paso removed migrant encampments ahead of the president&#8217;s planned Sunday visit. Cleanup occurred at the city&#8217;s downtown bus station and at the shelter near Sacred Heart Church, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/07/el-paso-cleans-up-migrant-camps-before-joe-biden-border-visit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> a report by the New York Post.
The report added that six buses with mostly Venezuelan migrants left the city into Mexico&#8217;s Ciudad Juarez, along with police escorting other migrants back to Mexico along a pedestrian crossing.
Former Republican Rep. Mayra Flores also condemned the city&#8217;s attempt to clear migrant camps before Biden&#8217;s arrival.
&#8220;Why not show him what our border community and law enforcement officials are dealing with on a daily basis?&#8221; she asked.
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El Paso clears downtown of expansive migrant camps ahead of Biden visit. 
Why not show him what our border community and law enforcement officials are dealing with on a daily basis.
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The National Border Patrol Council spoke out against the El Paso changes ahead of Biden&#8217;s visit in a Twitter post on Friday.
&#8220;El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened there. Just in time for Biden&#8217;s &#8216;visit to the border,&#8221; the group tweeted. &#8220;We suggest just landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling him it&#8217;s El Paso. He&#8217;ll never know the difference.&#8221;
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El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened there. Just in time for Biden&#39;s &quot;visit to the border&quot;. 
We suggest just landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling him it&#39;s El Paso. He&#39;ll never know the difference.
&mdash; Border Patrol Union &#8211; NBPC (@BPUnion) <a href="https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1611374133518143495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Fox News on Saturday that Border Patrol agents are discouraged by Biden&#8217;s approach.
&#8220;We&#8217;re beyond frustrated that it&#8217;s taken him two years. We&#8217;re beyond frustrated that he allowed this issue to get as bad as it is,&#8221; Judd <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-agents-frustrated-biden-prepares-finally-visit-besieged-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s not coming to the border of his own accord. He would have done that a long, long time ago.&#8221;
Judd said he believes Biden is visiting the border now due to pressure from media and some fellow Democrats, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has criticized Washington&#8217;s handling of the crisis.
Biden&#8217;s latest announcement concerning migrants includes a plan to allow 30,000 people per month from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua to enter the U.S. The policy would also expand Title 42 expulsions to include all four countries.
Opponents argue that the changes provide no real solution to migrants crossing the border. The Biden plan instead switches the numbers around while failing to lower the number of overall migrants entering the U.S.
Title 42 has been kept in place by the Supreme Court. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-to-keep-title-42-in-place-indefinitely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Customs and Border Protection officials warned lawmakers that approximately 50,000 foreigners were waiting to unlawfully cross into the United States once Title 42 ended in December.
An order from Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a lower court’s ruling, which justices extended to give the court time to consider both sides’ arguments.

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Shipping containers were placed along parts of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday to discourage migrants from attempting to cross into the city, according to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
&#8220;Texas is adding shipping containers to the US-Mexico border in El Paso,&#8221; Abbott tweeted on Wednesday. &#8220;This is in addition to the razor wire and National Guard. Together, the strategies are causing illegal immigration at that location to plummet.&#8221;
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Texas is adding shipping containers to the US-Mexico border in El Paso.
This is in addition to the razor wire and National Guard.
Together, the strategies are causing illegal immigration at that location to plummet.<a href="https://t.co/YPTJlkca5m">https://t.co/YPTJlkca5m</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1608258830156333056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The governor&#8217;s update on Twitter linked to a San Antonio Fox 29 report that featured photos and video footage from the makeshift barrier.
Border crossings in El Paso spiked in the weeks prior to the scheduled end of Title 42 on December 21. The policy allows Border Patrol to turn away migrants to help stop the spread of COVID.
The policy has been used more than <a href="https://apnews.com/article/religion-violence-28e943bc1a387b0320ce16211eaf58f5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2.5 million times</a> to expel migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. and to turn away migrants at the border, according to the Associated Press.
The city saw an average of <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-declared-in-us-border-city-/6881337.html#:~:text=U.S.%20officials%20say%20more%20than,as%20the%20temperatures%20are%20dropping." target="_blank" rel="noopener">2,400 migrants per day</a> entering over one seven-day period, leading the city to declare an emergency. The Texas National Guard sent personnel to help provide protection and safety in the area.
Title 42 was temporarily held in place by the Supreme Court. The court then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-to-keep-title-42-in-place-indefinitely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> Tuesday that the policy will remain in place until the case is heard next year.
Customs and Border Protection officials warned lawmakers that approximately 50,000 foreigners were waiting to cross into the United States once Title 42 ended. The court&#8217;s move will keep the policy in place for now, with thousands of migrants gathered along the Mexican side of the border awaiting entry.
Abbott&#8217;s announcement also came shortly after he provided an update to announce that Texas has bused 15,900 migrants to sanctuary cities in 2022.
Abbott shared the update in a Twitter post with details on the number of migrants sent to each of the four included cities. The totals included over 8,900 migrants bused to Washington, D.C., over 4,900 to New York City, over 1,500 to Chicago, and over 690 to Philadelphia.
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Texas has bused over 15,900 migrants to sanctuary cities:
▪️ Over 8,900 to DC ▪️ Over 4,900 to NYC ▪️ Over 1,500 to Chicago ▪️ Over 690 to Philadelphia
As Biden does nothing, Texas is taking unprecedented action to provide relief to our overwhelmed border communities.
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1608242767787954176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Texas is not the only state to use shipping containers to build a barrier along the southern border. Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey ordered double-stacked shipping containers to be lined across sections of his state&#8217;s border earlier this year to reduce migrant crossings.
Ducey was later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-governor-doug-ducey-will-take-down-shipping-container-border-wall-one-week-after-biden-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> by the Biden administration for placing the shipping containers on federal land. He agreed in December to remove the shipping containers on federal property.
The government of Arizona agreed to cease activity on National Forest System lands for “any purpose relating to installing shipping containers along the international border,” according to a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.1319463/gov.uscourts.azd.1319463.17.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court document</a>.
Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/24/november-record-for-migrant-crossings-at-southern-border/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> 233,740 migrant encounters in November, the highest ever recorded for that month. The number was more than 30% higher than last November, which recorded 178,845 migrant encounters.
Many of the migrants recorded in November were from communist nations, the New York Post noted, including Cuba and Venezuela.

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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that his state has bused nearly 16,000 migrants to sanctuary cities in 2022.
Abbott shared the update in a Twitter post with details on the number of migrants sent to each of the four included cities.
&#8220;Texas has bused over 15,900 migrants to sanctuary cities,&#8221; Abbott tweeted.
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Texas has bused over 15,900 migrants to sanctuary cities. 
⁃ Over 8,900 to DC ⁃ Over 4,900 to NYC ⁃ Over 1,500 to Chicago ⁃ Over 630 to Philadelphia 
We’re providing relief to local communities overwhelmed by President Biden’s open border policies.
&mdash; Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovAbbott/status/1607786043532783616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We’re providing relief to local communities overwhelmed by President Biden’s open border policies,&#8221; he added.
The state has bused over 8,900 migrants bused to Washington, D.C., the highest number among the sanctuary cities, according to Abbott.
Abbott noted over 4,900 migrants who were bused to New York City, over 1,500 to Chicago, and over 630 to Philadelphia.
The governor&#8217;s busing program made headlines on Christmas Eve when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/busloads-of-migrants-dropped-off-at-kamala-harris-home-on-christmas-eve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three busloads</a> of migrants arrived at the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HappeningNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HappeningNow</a> the second bus of migrants has arrived here in D.C. near VP Kamala Harris’ home. They are boarding another bus taking them to a church. Was just told by someone helping bring them to the church that this bus came from Texas: <a href="https://t.co/Sp4upqz1yB">pic.twitter.com/Sp4upqz1yB</a>
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The migrants, which reportedly included some women and children, were dropped off in cold temperatures before being picked up by another bus and taken to a local church for assistance.
“Governor Abbott abandoned children on the side of the road in below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve without coordinating with any federal or local authorities,” White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan said, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/us/politics/migrants-kamala-harris-christmas-eve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the New York Times. “This was a cruel, dangerous and shameful stunt.”
The 15,900 people are an extremely small percentage of the migrants who have crossed the southern border during President Joe Biden&#8217;s time in office.
The El Paso, Texas, sector alone has reportedly experienced a recent surge of more than 2,400 migrants per day, marking a 40% increase over already high numbers in October, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/el-paso-mayor-declares-state-emergency-over-influx-migrants-mexico-border-2022-12-18/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Reuters.
According to public data, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/80-000-immigrants-released-el-paso-border-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 80,000 migrants have entered El Paso in the last four months.
A recent <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-gears-up-for-potential-ending-of-title-42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">update</a> from Abbott&#8217;s Operation Lone Star effort to address the border crisis noted 336,000 migrant apprehensions in Texas alone since it began in March 2021. The apprehensions have included more than 23,000 criminal arrests.
In addition, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has seized over 354 million lethal doses of fentanyl during the operation.
As of October, border officials came into contact with over 2 million migrants this fiscal year. Last fiscal year, that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/politics/border-encounters-migrants-2022/index.html#:~:text=US%20border%20authorities%20encountered%20more,more%20than%201.7%20million%20encounters." target="_blank" rel="noopener">number</a> was at 1.7 million. 
Abbot sent a letter to Biden earlier this month to demand the deployment of federal assets in Texas ahead of the scheduled end of Title 42.
“These communities and the state are ill-equipped to do the job assigned to the federal government — house the thousands of migrants flooding into the country every day,” Abbott <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgov.texas.gov%2Fuploads%2Ffiles%2Fpress%2FBidenJoseph_12.20.22.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ckimberly.carmichael%40gov.texas.gov%7C3e82e5b2aa2646ed5ef408dae4447346%7C54cb5da6c7344242bbc25c947e85fb2c%7C0%7C1%7C638073279895458423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=u7jJYAlvyfFMoDfWC3%2Fhq3uLPb8b2yGJmtcXocLcplU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
“With perilous temperatures moving into the area, many of these migrants are at risk of freezing to death on city streets. The need to address this crisis is not the job of border states like Texas. Instead, the U.S. Constitution dictates that it is your job, Mr. President, to defend the borders of our country, regulate our nation’s immigration, and manage those who seek refuge here,&#8221; he added.
Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows Border Patrol to turn away migrants to stop the spread of COVID-19, was later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-to-keep-title-42-in-place-indefinitely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kept in place</a> by the Supreme Court.
&#8220;We will, of course, comply with the order and prepare for the Court’s review,&#8221; a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/12/27/statement-by-white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-supreme-court-title-42-order/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a> following the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision. &#8220;At the same time, we are advancing our preparations to manage the border in a secure, orderly, and humane way when Title 42 eventually lifts and will continue expanding legal pathways for immigration.&#8221;

Greg Abbott Announces Texas Has Bused Nearly 16,000 Migrants To Sanctuary Cities

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Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> hit back at President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> on Monday over criticism of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> program voluntarily relocating migrants at the U.S. southern border to sanctuary cities.
Three buses filled with about 130 immigrants stopped and let their passengers off outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ official residence in Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve evening. The buses were originally destined for New York, but rerouted to D.C. because of road closures and low temperatures, an aid worker told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/us/politics/migrants-kamala-harris-christmas-eve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
“The White House is full of a bunch of hypocrites, led by the Hypocrite-in-Chief,” Abbott spokeswoman Renae Eze said in a statement, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/greg-abbott-pushes-back-criticism-after-busing-migrants/story?id=95848289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>. “Instead of their hypocritical complaints about Texas providing much-needed relief to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities, President Biden and Border Czar Harris need to step up and do their jobs to secure the border — something they continue failing to do.”
The migrants “were processed and released by the federal government,” Eze said. Relocating the migrants from the Texas border to sanctuary cities is “providing much-needed relief to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities.”
El Paso, Texas, is one of the hardest hit communities of the border crisis. Dozens of homeless migrants have slept in the city’s streets in recent weeks because government and nonprofit facilities set up for migrant care are overcrowded. The city, which is operating its own bussing program to relocate migrants, <a href="https://wtov9.com/news/nation-world/migrants-brace-cold-night-el-pasoans-show-up-to-help-them-stay-warm-christian-values-jesus-christ-manger-mary-joseph-no-room-at-the-inn-texas-southern-border-public-safety-charity-christmas-holidays-december-winter-weather-blizzard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid</a> for several buses to idle on the city’s streets over the holiday weekend for migrants to warm up during nights of freezing temperatures.
The White House had lashed out at Abbott on Christmas after the migrants were dropped off in front of the Naval Observatory.
“Governor Abbott abandoned children on the side of the road in below-freezing temperatures on Christmas Eve without coordinating with any federal or local authorities,” White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan said, according to the Times. “This was a cruel, dangerous and shameful stunt.”
“These political games accomplish nothing and only put lives in danger,” he added.
The Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling on Title 42 in the coming days, potentially allowing the Trump-era pandemic policy to end and spark a flood of migrants over the U.S. border.
Tens of thousands of migrants are currently staying in shelters on the Mexico side of the border. At least 22,000 migrants are staying in shelters in the Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Reynosa, and Matamoros, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/us/el-paso-border-fencing-title-42/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> reports.

Texas Governor Rips ‘Hypocrite-In-Chief’ Joe Biden After Busloads Of Migrants Arrive At Veep’s Residence

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You&#8217;ll be hearing the term &#8220;Title 42&#8221; a lot in the coming days.
Title 42 is a U.S. law that gives the government the power to shut down the border as an emergency action to keep communicable diseases out of the country. Presidents have used the power in the past. In June 1929, President Herbert Hoover <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/11/2020-20036/control-of-communicable-diseases-foreign-quarantine-suspension-of-the-right-to-introduce-and">restricted</a> the &#8220;transportation of passengers&#8221; from China and the Philippines because of a meningitis outbreak.
President Donald Trump used Title 42 in 2020 as the COVID pandemic broke out worldwide. And in a wise move, President Joe Biden kept the rule in place. Since it was enacted, more than two million people have been expelled.
But families seeking U.S. asylum filed a lawsuit, and a federal judge <a href="https://foreigndesknews.com/top-story/u-s-plans-for-more-migrant-releases-when-title-42-asylum-limits-end-wednesday/?utm_source=offthepress&amp;amp;utm_medium=home">ordered</a> the Biden administration to lift Title 42 by December 21. Once that happens, the floodgates will open. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials told U.S. lawmakers last Wednesday that some 50,000 foreigners are already waiting to cross into the U.S. once Title 42 is lifted.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott warned of the coming mayhem.
&#8220;If the courts don&#8217;t intervene and put a halt of removal to the Title 42 it’s going to be total chaos,&#8221; Abbott <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-gov-greg-abbott-end-title-42-bring/story?id=95476815">said</a> during an interview broadcast on Sunday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
Host Martha Raddatz exposed her clear bias when she asked the governor about his claims that Biden supports an open border.
&#8220;You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders, I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, &#8216;We have an open border, come on over.&#8217; But people I have heard say it are you, President Trump, [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis, that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it’s an open border and smugglers use all those kind of statements.&#8221;
&#8220;It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;It is known by the cartels who have sophisticated information whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not is known across the world but most importantly, known among the cartels.&#8221;
Abbott said the rule should be kept in place not only for COVID. &#8220;Whether it&#8217;s COVID or some other issue, when you have people coming across the globe without knowing at all what their health status is, that almost by definition is a public health risk. There’s every reason to keep that in place.&#8221;
&#8220;Some do come across with COVID and no one knows exactly who comes across with COVID. These people are not tested when they come across the border and so who knows how many people have COVID, who knows what other type of disease they may have. The answer is nobody knows because nobody is testing them,&#8221; the governor said.
And as few Republicans do, Abbott pointed out that there is a full process in place for foreigners to enter the country legally.
&#8220;This is very important because there are people across the globe who have a valid, a solid reason to come to the United States, but they can do so legally right now. The people who have the ability to come to the United States legally get pushed further and further and further back in the line every single day with the thousands of illegal immigrants coming across the border,&#8221; Abbott said.
Raddatz sought to attack Abbott for busing migrants to other parts of the country, but the governor explained just why he does so.
&#8220;The real reason behind it is because communities like Del Rio and Eagle Pass and others, they are having thousands of people dumped off into their communities, thousands of migrants, dumped off in their communities. They don&#8217;t have the capability of dealing with that vast number of migrants and I removed them to locations that self-identified as sanctuary cities that have the capability and the desire to help out these migrants and so that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s taken place,&#8221; he said.
In fact, the Democratic mayor of the Texas border city of El Paso on Saturday declared a state of emergency, citing the hundreds of homeless migrants sleeping on city streets and the thousands being apprehended every day trying to cross the border.
Abbott is right. It&#8217;s about to be &#8220;chaos&#8221; at the border &#8211; a place Biden has never visited, and &#8220;Border Czar&#8221; Vice President Kamala Harris has stopped by only once for a brief tour. It&#8217;s clear that neither see the crisis as pressing.
But don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s plenty of money to take care of the coming throngs of migrants.
Yours.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Texas Governor Predicts ‘Total Chaos’ When Title 42 Border Rule Ends

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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said ending Title 42 would bring &#8220;total chaos&#8221; to America&#8217;s southern border.
Interviewed on ABC News&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-gov-greg-abbott-end-title-42-bring/story?id=95476815" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Week</a>,&#8221; Abbott warned that the termination of the Trump-era border and health policy would burden border communities already dealing with a flood of unlawful migrant crossings. Title 42, which allows border agents to turn away migrants on an expedited basis because of a public health emergency, expires Wednesday.
&#8220;If the courts do not intervene and put a halt to the removal of Title 42, it&#8217;s gonna be total chaos,&#8221; Abbott said bluntly in an interview broadcast on Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be catastrophic, not just for Texas, but for the United States of America.&#8221;
Abbott stressed that even though the COVID pandemic is over, the influx of thousands of migrants every day still presents a danger to public health.
&#8220;Whether it&#8217;s COVID or some other issue, when you have people coming across the globe without knowing at all what their health status is, that almost by definition is a public health risk,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There’s every reason to keep that in place.&#8221;
Abbott called on President Joe Biden to enforce the existing laws. Earlier this month, a federal judge blocked the administration from ending Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; program, which sent some non-Mexican migrants to Mexico while awaiting immigration hearings rather than being detained or released in the U.S.
&#8220;If the President steps up and does his job, required by the Constitution and required by the federal courts, and enforces Remain in Mexico, that would have the same level of effectiveness as keeping Title 42 in place,&#8221; said Abbott. In the meantime, &#8220;we have every level of government doing everything we can to prevent people from coming into the country illegally or repelling them or arresting them and putting them behind bars,&#8221; he said.
Texas is one of several Republican-led states currently trying to keep the Title 42 border policy in place. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/court-denies-gop-states-effort-continue-title-42/story?id=95419608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> an appeal of the original court decision on Friday, but Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich confirmed to ABC that he intends to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court in an effort to extend Title 42.
If and when Title 42 expires, experts predict that as many as 14,000 illegal aliens will cross the border every day. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-big-house-sized-deluge-of-illegals-migrants-is-about-to-hit-americas-border-every-9-days" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Meads</a> pointed out, that would mean approximately 126,000 more migrants would unlawfully cross the border by December 30.

Abbott Sounds The Alarm About The End Of Title 42: ‘Total Chaos…Catastrophic’

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On Wednesday, Texas became the fourth state to ban TikTok on state-issued devices amid federal officials sounding the alarm that the Chinese-based social media app threatens national security.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott sent letters to state agency leaders warning that the social media platform risks the safety and cybersecurity of Texans.
“TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users’ devices—including when, where, and how they conduct Internet activity—and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government,” Abbott said in a <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-orders-aggressive-action-against-tiktok">news release</a>.
Growing security concerns over the social media platform have caught lawmakers’ attention recently after the Federal Communications Commission said the government agency could not regulate the social media app or control American data from flowing back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which requires companies to share its data upon request under the country’s 2017 National Intelligence Law.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which currently has more than 200 million downloads in the United States.
Heeding warning signs from federal officials, Abbott took action against state employees using the platform following a growing bipartisan coalition in Congress that continues to push for a national ban on TikTok.
“While TikTok has claimed that it stores U.S. data within the U.S., the company admitted in a letter to Congress that China-based employees can have access to U.S. data,” Abbott wrote. “It has also been reported that ByteDance planned to use TikTok location information to surveil individual American citizens.&#8221;
“Further, under China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law, all businesses are required to assist China in intelligence work including data sharing, and TikTok’s algorithm has already censored topics politically sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party, including the Tiananmen Square protests,” he added.
TikTok has now been banned on state devices in Texas, Maryland, South Carolina, and South Dakota.
On Tuesday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and other Wisconsin lawmakers sent a letter to Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers calling for similar action in the Badger State, asking him to “ban TikTok from Wisconsin government devices and to lead by example and delete TikTok from your own devices.”
In Arkansas, Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield filed a bill on Monday that would enact a similar TikTok ban on state devices.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced two lawsuits against TikTok on Wednesday over concerns about data sharing and targeting children with sexual content, profanity, drugs, and other mature content.
At the federal level, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) introduced legislation last month to ban the app in the U.S.
Vanessa Pappas, a TikTok executive, told U.S. Congress earlier this year that the social media app was making “progress toward a final agreement with the U.S. government to further safeguard U.S. user data and fully address U.S. national security interests,” according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fbi-director-says-tiktok-poses-national-security-concerns-2022-11-15/">Reuters</a>.
Concerns about the Chinese-based app reach back to 2020 when then-President Donald Trump signed an executive order that sought to ban the use of TikTok in the U.S.
The order was to take effect 45 days later but was not implemented following a series of legal challenges. President Joe Biden revoked the executive order in June 2021.
Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Bans State Employees From Using TikTok Amid Chinese Espionage Threats

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Tuesday that he invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions to deal with President Joe Biden&#8217;s (D) immigration crisis on the southern border.
The announcement comes after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/gov-greg-abbott-invokes-invasion-clauses-in-border-security-push">numbers</a> showing that for Fiscal Year 2022, which ended in September, there were nearly 2.4 million illegal aliens detained on the U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. &amp; Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;I&#8217;m using that constitutional authority, &amp; other authorization &amp; Executive Orders to keep our state &amp; country safe.&#8221;
Abbott announced the following steps that the state of Texas would take to address the problem:
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<li>Deploy the National Guard to safeguard the border, and to repel and turn back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally;</li>
<li>Deploy the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) to arrest and return immigrants to the border who crossed illegally, and to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity;</li>
<li>Build a wall in multiple counties on the border;</li>
<li>Deploy gun boats;</li>
<li>Designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations;</li>
<li>Enter into a compact with other states to secure the border;</li>
<li>Enter into agreements with foreign powers to enhance border security;</li>
<li>Provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the &#8220;border invasion.&#8221;</li>
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I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. &amp; Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion.
I&#39;m using that constitutional authority, &amp; other authorization &amp; Executive Orders to keep our state &amp; country safe: <a href="https://t.co/2Jt5HEMgp5">pic.twitter.com/2Jt5HEMgp5</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1592553350129909762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Abbott&#8217;s announcement comes after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greg-abbott-wins-in-texas-projection">trounced</a> Democrat Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke, often referred to as &#8220;Beto,&#8221; in last week&#8217;s midterm election by 11 points.
“I ran this campaign for the Texans who want safer streets,&#8221; Abbott said after winning. &#8220;For the homeowners burdened with skyrocketing property taxes. For the oil field workers who begged me to protect their livelihoods. For parents who want to choose the school that’s best for their child. For the ranchers and residents who pleaded for a secure border.&#8221;
&#8220;Texas must continue our unprecedented efforts to secure our border,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Tonight Texans sending a resounding message that we want to keep Texas the beacon of opportunity that we have provided for the past eight years.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-abbott-to-the-biden-admin-if-they-will-not-go-to-the-border-were-taking-the-border-to-them">Governor Abbott To The Biden Admin: ‘If They Will Not Go To The Border, We’re Taking The Border To Them’</a>

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