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Texas Governor Abbott sends TANKS to the border

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying National Guard troops in M113 armored personnel carrier to various positions along the border after earlier threatening to use gunboats in an attempt to quell the influx of migrants at the border.

The news comes after Abbott invoked a Constitutional clause on Wednesday warning President Joe Biden that the Lone Star state would go rogue to defend itself from what he calls a migrant 'invasion' at the southern border.

Texas Military Department officials ordered the 10 armored personnel carriers on Thursday and announced around 50 soldiers would be trained to operate them. 

Armored personnel carriers are large, heavily armored vehicles that move on tracks like tanks but are designed to carry troops into battle alongside tanks. 

Affectionately known as the 'battle taxi' by troops in the Army, the M113 is bulletproof and can withstand small explosions - the US recently sent 200 to Ukraine for the country's fight against Russia. 

It remains unclear if the armored personnel carriers sent to the border will have any weaponry attached, but the vehicle can equip heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. 

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  • Until Gov, Abbot uses the armor and troops to stop and return the alien belligerents invading Texas this is all blustering and showboating... So far there has been no real enforcement of Texas's border...Talk and blustering are empty threats, the cartels and invading migrants are laughing, as 64 thousand of them cross into Texas at Del Rio in one day.  Some order defense. 

    It sounds like Gov. Abbot needs to redefine defense... changing its traditional meaning to one more akin to the neighborhood welcome wagon.  Excuse me if I am cynical but I am fed up with the showboating and empty rhetoric of our leaders in both parties.

  • Hardly great... Congress can and should declare a state of war exists on the southern border and that ALL invading forces be considered combatants under the articles of war and international law... thus removing all protection under US Immigration law and policy. All of the invading forces shoujld be subjected to the articles of war and treated as irregular force combatants ... thus removing them from all civil law protections. This can be done by a simple majority vote in both Houses of Congress... it doen;t take th President or other authority to request a State of War exists on our Southern Border.

    However, look for the GOP/RNC to claim they can't take such action... as they are PART OF THE PROBLEM and their neglect to use their majority position in Congress to defend our borders by suspending all civil protections for those INVADING FORCES is, in fact, an act of TREASON... giving aid and comfort to the enemy ... I repeat a simple majority -vote declaring a state of war on the southern border... NAMING all illegal aliens as the invading force... suspends all civil immigration law and imposes the articles of war as the governing law... which permits our state and federal military forces the right to detain and DEPORT... return prisoners of war to their parent states and if they refuse their return we may invade them... too force repatriation of heir army of irregular forces.
    Make no mistake a state of war exists... the laws of war need to apply NOT OUR CIVIL IMMIGRATION LAW. We can fix it with a SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTE IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS... IT DOESN'T TAKE A PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE TO BECOME LAW.

    WATCH CONGRESS AND THE GOP ... CLAIM THEY CAN'T ACT TO TAKE THIS SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD MAJORITY VOTE... TO DECLARE A STATE OF WAR EXISTS  ALL THOSE SEEKING ILLEGAL ENTRY TO THE US... THUS REMOVING ALL CIVIL LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS FOR THE INVADERS... REPLACING CIVIL LAW WITH THE RULES OF WAR AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS REGULATING THE TREATMENT OF BELLIGERENT FORCES TAKEN CAPTIVE IN THE DEFENCE OF OUR BORDERS.  HOWEVER, WE HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT BY BOTH PARTIES... AND ARE UNLIKELY TO SEE  CONGRESS AND THE GOP TAKE SUCH A SIMPLE METHOD TO SOLVE THE SOUTHERN BORDER INVASION. 

  • A State that acts within its constitutional powers to DEFEND against INVASION, per the US Constitution Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, is not a ROUGE STATE.  The US Constitution... permits the several States to engage in War when defending against invasion or when under imminent threat thereof, without the consent of Congress...or the Executive Branch... Congress can approve a State defending its borders.

    With Both Houses of Congress under GOP  control, Congress can and should authorize the Southern Border STATEs to take ALL necessary action to defend their borders from illegal entry by an invading force, of illegal aliens.  Congress and the states... not the Executive or Judicial Branch hold the power to declare a state of war.  Congress with a simple majority vote can declare a state of war exists on our southern border and authorize any State(s) involved to defend itself... suspending all federal border patrol, and DHS  agents from interfering with the States detention and deportation of invading irregular forces ... illegal aliens... in the numbers currently crossing illegally into the USA constitute an asymmetrical body of foreign combatants.   A default state of war exists on our Southern Border.  It is time that Congress declares it so... and if not... let the States do it under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3... of the Constitution and let Congress fund their defense.

  • Great news

    • Hardly...v10 APCs and 50 soldiers on Texas's 1254 miles of Mexican Border is a JOKE... Showboating is hardly a defense.  IF Gov. Abbot is serious about defending Texas's border with Mexico... he needs to mobilize the 36th Infantry Div... which is part of the Texas National Guard.  Give the 10 thousand plus soldiers of the 36th Infantry the mission to secure the border... that my friends would work... overnight.

  • Go.Abbott! 

    • Yeah,  GO Abbott ...  those 50 soldiers and 10 APCs could use a little help on your 1200-plus miles of Southern Border.   Do you think?

  • It's about time. We have been invaded by the cartels for years, they are murdering out people with drugs, and sending in criminals who are dangerous/threatening to our well being. The federal government has one job....it is to keep us safe, they have failed for many decades. We need to protect our borders, without knowing who is coming in, we have no country......it's a free for all.

    • Like most of America, you are clueless... 10 APCs and 50 soldiers are a joke... there are 1254 miles of southern border to secure.  that's a mere 20-plus miles per man and 250 miles per APC ... hardly a defense force large enough to handle the mission.  Gov. Abbott has the 36th Infantry Div as part of the Texas National Guard ... mobilize it and send it to the border and give them the mission to seal the border and it will be done.  Otherwise, shut the hell up as sending 50 men and 10 APCs is a Joke.

  • Good for Gov. Abbott, unfortunately TX is only one area  What about NM AZ and CA?  I can't see those governors doing anything. 

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