So over?
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Almost the entirety of the federal government should be considered to be a hostile occupying army.
Some kind of Foreign-Occupied Government? Of only there where a zippier description.
CBP is currently acting as immigration officers rather than border patrol as you'd think of them. If they find anybody, they're not deporting them. They're documenting them. They are enabling the invasion; they're helping with it.
We are literally ruled by hostile forces.
The ruling says because the Feds have to be able to patrol the border.
So put the wire 100' in from the border so they have room to patrol.
Push the issue and if the Supremes really want to reaffirm that 1/3 of Texas is the border then there's your justification for succession.
Don't know why they didn't do this to begin with. My understanding is BP has jurisdiction over only a certain distance from the border. They would have had no lawsuit or excuse to weasel their way through.
The border patrol claims 100 miles from the border is their jurisdiction.
I doubt the Supremes would actually rule that Texas can enact a fence only at 100 miles inland, because that would be absolutely ridiculous. I'm saying keep pushing them to define what distance it's okay for Texas to have a fence that keeps illegal aliens out.
Not their sole jurisdiction, though. They can operate in that space, but it doesn't mean they get to dictate everything that happens in the corridor.
As far as the SC, if it looks like Texas is doing immigration enforcement, I think they're going to stop it on separation of powers.
I like how Texas law doesn't try to deport them. They go to jail, but with the option of self-deporting instead.
So Texas isn't actually enforcing immigration.
Of course the liberal justices will overrule it anyway because they want more browns, and the Catholic justices believe in unitary, top-down authority so always side with the feds.
Normally an illegal caught committing a crime would be held based on whether they got bail. They would have an immigration hold, so as soon as they were let out of jail, or sentenced, I guess, they'd be send to ICE for deportation, but ICE doesn't do that any more.
This Texas law makes it a felony to be in Texas illegally, but if the person arranges their own deportation it's reduced to a misdemeanor with no time.
So immigration is not involved in any way and it's not a due process violation since they get their day in court if they so choose.
Legally it seems very clever to avoid easily overturning it.
This seems like the problem right here. The Feds are exclusively empowered to decide who is allowed in the country. If the basis for whether or not someone is arrested is based on Federal immigration status, it's going to look like immigration enforcement.
100 miles is obviously way too much fucking room for the Feds to mess around in.
Just don't do it. It's that simple.
Well it does say "while a lawsuit over the wire" continues at least. The final result will probably be the same.
Garfinkel will stall the lawsuit as much as possible then.
I'd love to see Abbott defy this order, but I seriously doubt that would happen. Texas has it's state guard, so why not order them there to repel the feds. I'm kidding because I know that won't happen.
I heard from TheDonald that it's already been cut. The government can move very fast when it wants to.