Texas Standoff: One State Makes a Stand

There is something rotten in DHS

The recent immigration control operation by the State of Texas has been a major success. The operation, known as Operation Lone Star, originally started as an operation by the Texas Department of Public Saftey (DPS) to support the Department of Homeland Security along the border.

As the Biden administration continued to refuse to actually secure the border, Operation Lone Star evolved into a standalone operation to secure the Texan border with Mexico. After Texas DPS took control of a park in the city the number of illegal migrant crossings in the Eagle Pass region have declined from some 2,400 illegals a day to just 750 per day.

Additionally, most of those illegals that do make it across are arrested by the Texas Department of Public Saftey, and many are subsequently pushed back over the border into Mexico. Texas claims to have returned more than 80,000 illegal immigrants to Mexico, and arrested tens of thousands more for various crimes including drug trafficking.

A panel of Federal judges also ruled that Texas is allowed to keep its floating razor-wire border barriers in the Rio Grande river, thereby securing even more lengths of the US border.

Texas could and should expand the Eagler Pass operation to as much of the border as it can. Unlike in California, Arizona or New Mexico, the border in Texas is owned privately, or by agencies of the State, not the Federal government.

Other states should, can and must join in, supplying Texas with resources and manpower to secure as much of the border as possible. Some steps have already been taken, such as when Florida sent a continent of 1,000 national guards and law enforcement officers to assist Texas, but this was before the evolution of Operation Lone Star into its current form.

Texas will need much more help if it is to do the job which the Federal government refuses to do.

You can read more about how states can take the lead on fighting the Great Replacement here on our Substack:

As Operation Lone Star has evolved a cornerstone of the operation in Eagle Pass has been to refuse the Federal government access to the park where Texas DPS has been working to keep the border secure. The Biden administration took the case to the Supreme Court and on January 22nd of 2024 the court ruled in a 5-4 vote to allow the Department of Homeland Security to cut the razor wire fencing installed by the State of Texas along the border with Mexico.

It appears that 'conservative' Justices Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts (the chief Justice) voted against Texas. Barrett is a Trump appointed Justice, while Roberts was appointed in '05 by then President G.W. Bush.

This was an emergency order, and the full case has yet to be heard, but it is remarkable that the Supreme Court continues to legislate from the bench, making political decisions for the entire country while putting off, perhaps for more than a year, hearing the full case.

During which time millions more illegal immigrants will cross into the United States and be given parole status by the Biden Administration, meaning they will have access to the same range of rights and benefits as American citizens. The Biden administration granted more than 950,000 people humanitarian parole in 2022, and more than 1.3 million people humanitarian parole in 2023. These now legalized illegal aliens compete with Americans for jobs, housing, places in school for children, and access to the welfare state.

Still, Texas has continued to refuse to allow the Federal government access to the park in Eagle Pass where Operation Lone Star is taking place, arguing that while the Supreme Court ruled that DHS may cut Texas’ border barrier, there was no ruling which mandated Texas allow the Federal government access to its area of operation. This is a technicality, the the kind which states should and must utilize to defend themselves.

More states with brave governors must get serious about helping the State of Texas secure the border with Mexico. Money, manpower, logistical support, and countless other resources will be necessary if Texas is ever to expand the operation to secure more lengths of the border beyond Eagle Pass, and we sincerely encourage them to do so.

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