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Donald Trump Weighs In on Potential Texas Border Clash
Jan 26, 2024 at 10:54 AM EST


'Civil War' Warnings Grow Over Texas Border Standoff
By Benjamin Lynch
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Former President Donald Trump has waded into the Texas border issue amid tension between the Biden administration and Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Trump said on his Truth Social media platform on Thursday that "All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the Safety, Security, and Sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people." He also said that "willing states" should "deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border."

The Supreme Court has ruled that wire installed at the border by Abbott as part of his Operation Lone Star can be removed, but so far it remains in place.

The Biden administration argues it prevents border patrol agents form accessing key areas of the border.

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Former President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in Rochester, New Hampshire, on January 21, 2024. Trump has waded into the border issue amid tension between the Biden administration and authorities in Texas.
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Earlier this month, three migrants, including two children, drowned in the Rio Grande in an area federal agents were unable to access.

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Abbott's office has made clear its unhappiness with the situation, as tensions with the Biden administration rise. A letter written to Texas officials after the Supreme Court ruling by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on January 24 demanded Texas allow "full access" to the border by January 26.

The DHS said Customs and Border Protection units have been blocked from the critical area of Eagle Pass.

Trump's intervention—the border is expected to be a key issue in this year's presidential election—saw him pitch himself as working alongside Abbott on the issue.

"When I am President, on Day One, instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand in hand with Governor Abbott and other Border States to Stop the Invasion, Seal the Border, and Rapidly Begin the Largest Domestic Deportation Operation in History," he said on Truth Social. "Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home."

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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick warned that the "biggest mistake" the Biden administration could make is to confront "law enforcement or our military, our National Guard at our border."

He told Fox News' Laura Ingraham: "If they come down and create a situation, all of America already knows now they will clearly see that the Democrats are willing to take on a state that is operating under our constitutional right to protect our people."

When Ingraham asked if Biden "wants something to trigger something that will end up in some type of violence involving states versus the federal government," Patrick replied that he was "not concerned" about the prospect.

It isn't just Abbott's office and Trump the Biden administration is having to contend with, as a total of 25 Republican governors have issued a joint-statement backing the Texas governor.

The statement said: "We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border.

"We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally."

The list of governors includes Ron DeSantis of Florida, Brian Kemp of Georgia and Jeff Landry of Louisiana.

Congress
Border security has long been part of Trump's appeal to his base. During his first presidential run in 2016, when he successfully beat Democrat Hillary Clinton, he infamously called for Mexico to pay for the construction of a border wall.

The issue has been used by Trump as one of his key direct attack lines on Biden.

The president has requested a $106 billion funding package, around $60 billion of which is for Ukraine. There is also funding for Israel and Taiwan.

Biden has urged lawmakers to work with his administration on a deal on border security, but Republican lawmakers have stalled it, as they are unhappy with some of its provisions.

Negotiations have taken months, but reports of a deal between the Biden administration and the GOP have recently emerged.

Trump has said the Senate deal with the Biden administration is "meaningless" for border security and stated the only way forward was voting for him.

Punchbowl News has quoted Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell as saying Congressional party members didn't "want to do anything to undermine" Trump.

Newsweek has approached McConnell's office, the White House and a spokesperson for Trump for comment via email.

The reported comments sparked backlash from McConnell's fellow Republicans including Senator Mitt Romney.

Romney, a vocal critic of Trump, despite his party allegiances, told CNN it would be "appalling" for GOP senators to back out of a potential deal that has taken months to arrange to protect a political campaign.

"The fact that [Trump] would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling," he said.

Later, an apparently reassured Romney said McConnell "is not going to let political considerations of any campaign stand in the way of his support."

Punchbowl also reported McConnell as saying he is "fully engaged in both the border and getting Ukraine and Israel [funding] together on this."


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A convoy calling themselves 'God's army' plans to head to the Texas border to stop migrants from entering the US
Story by ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)  •
01/27/24
Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Photo
Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Photo
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A convoy is heading to the southern border to stop migrants from entering the United States.
The group's leader described their tactics as "domestic internal defense."
It is not clear what the group plans to do once they reach the border.
A convoy of hundreds of people plans to head to the Texas border to stop migrants crossing into the country from Mexico.

The group, called "Take Our Border Back," is organizing on Telegram and now has more than 1,600 followers.

One of the group's organizers described them as "God's army" in a planning call, according to Vice.

"This is a biblical, monumental moment that's been put together by God," one organizer said, per Vice.

Another said: "We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil."
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise," they said.

Pete Chambers, a lieutenant colonel organizing the group, has claimed he was a Green Beret. He explained the group's plans while speaking to conspiracist Alex Jones on his Infowars show on Thursday.

"That's what Green Berets do. Unconventional warfare is our bread and butter. Now we're doing domestic internal defense," Chambers said.

"What gets us to the enemy quickly is to find, fix, and finish, exploit, analyze, and disseminate," Chambers said, referring to a military process. "That's what we did in Syria when we took out ISIS really quick."

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He said the group would work with sympathetic members of law enforcement who he described as "constitutionally sound."

The convoy is due to begin on Monday, starting at Virginia Beach, Virginia and three rallies will be held in San Ysidro, California, Yuma, Arizona, and Eagle Pass, Texas on February 3.

The group has sub-groups on Telegram for drivers and riders in those three states to coordinate rides.

The website describes the event as a "peaceful assembly" inviting all "law-abiding, freedom-loving Americans."

Wired published an article describing the group as an "armed convoy," after which the group wrote on Telegram: "We are not making a call to arms. A call to engage with anyone crossing the border. We are here to peacefully protest under our 1st amendment right and pray!"

The group said that one of their goals is to stop illegal immigration immediately and close the border.


It is not clear how the group plans to confront migrants at the border and stop them from entering.

Texas National Guard troops are in a standoff with the federal government after they rolled out razor wire at a park on the bank of the Rio Grande, where migrants often cross.

Chambers described those troops as "holding the line," and said his convoy would go to an area about 30 miles away.

Rep. Keith Self, a Republican representative from Texas, has said that he supports the convoy.

Tensions have been rising around immigration, and the issue looks likely to be a major one in the presidential election later this year.

Migration levels are reaching record levels, with US officials saying around 300,000 people tried to cross the border in December.


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Trump praises Texas governor as border state clashes with Biden administration over immigration
Story by By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press  •

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump lavished praise Saturday on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for not allowing the Biden administration entry to remove razor wire in a popular corridor for migrants illegally entering the U.S. in an escalating feud over immigration.

In a speech focused overwhelmingly on border security, Trump said Texas should be given full support in its measures to deter migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The state is restricting the U.S. Border Patrol after the Supreme Court cleared the way for these federal agents to cut or remove the sharp metal barrier.


“When I’m president, instead of trying to send Texas a restraining order, I will send them reinforcements,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in Las Vegas, where he rallied on an indoor soccer field in a largely Latino neighborhood. “Instead of fighting border states, I will use every resource tool and authority of the U.S. president to defend the United States of America from this horrible invasion that is taking place right now.”
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Trump largely avoided talking about a verdict delivered by a jury in a defamation case Friday, ordering him to pay an additional $83.3 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll, who he called a liar for accusing him of sexual assault.

The former president, who is getting closer to securing the Republican presidential nomination, said he was the victim of the Biden administration weaponizing law enforcement against him as he faces 91 criminal charges in four indictments accusing him of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, mishandling classified documents and arranging payoffs to a porn star.

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“What they’re doing with elections and election interference as an example of what they do with me,” he said. “Look at yesterday, look at all this crap that’s going on, but we keep marching forward, we just keep going and somehow it all works out.”

Annabelle Weislocher, 51, a nurse who retired from the Navy and the Air Force Reserve, said she felt the cases against Trump are attempts to weaken him and drain him from his resources.

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“They know he’s leading. They know he’s strong. And they’re doing everything just to lower him,” she said. “That’s what they’re trying to do, take his money thinking he won’t have enough funds to campaign. That’s the goal.”

Trump’s support among Hispanics has grown since he first ran in 2016. And on Saturday, he drove that point, drawing loud cheers when he claimed he was doing very well in that voter demographic.

The Republican candidate said Hispanic and Black families hurt the most from the arrival of migrants into the country and said President Joe Biden should not have ended restrictions implemented during the Trump administration to deter migration.

“I’ll get it solved and I’ll get it solved and start the process on day one — on day one, we will start that process,” he said. “That’s why we’re going to win the record share of Latino votes.”


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The historic number of migrants arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico during Biden’s term is one of the main challenges of his reelection campaign.

Immigration was a top issue during Iowa’s Republican caucuses earlier this month, when Trump won. An AP VoteCast survey found about 9 in 10 caucusgoers backed building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, with about 7 in 10 expressing strong support for the idea.

Rob Williams, a 25-year-old voter who attended the Las Vegas rally, said he was glad Texas was defying the Biden administration over immigration.

“The good Texan people are stepping up to the plate, other states as well," he said. "They’re going to show the fight over there in Texas.”

Trump is running without any major opposition in Nevada after the state GOP decided to award delegates in a party-run caucus on Dec. 8 instead of a state-run primary a day earlier.

The decision, which was pressed by Trump’s allies in the party to help him amass as many delegates as possible, has caused confusion for some voters, who are receiving mail ballots without Trump’s name on them.

Trump repeatedly pressed voters to caucus for him and ignore the primary.

“Your primary vote doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “Don’t worry about the primary, just do the caucus”

Trump’s only remaining major GOP rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, is competing in the primary but not the caucus, which makes her ineligible for delegates who will formally select a nominee at the Republican National Convention. ___

Gomez Licon reported from Miami.

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Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Andres Leighton/AP Photo
Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Andres Leighton/AP Photo
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Dmitry Medvedev taunted the Biden administration over the escalating Texas border standoff.
He predicted a "destructive civil confrontation" and suggested Texas could become a separate country.
The border standoff has catapulted debates about how to handle migration into the spotlight.
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Off years in US politics are supposed to be relatively quiet. Heading into 2023, we expected a divided Congress to pass very little sweeping legislation. We knew that Republicans would be jockeying for the GOP presidential nomination. And you can always expect a surprise or two.

Oh, how quaint that seems now.

Congress was so dysfunctional that even by modern standards the chaos in the Capitol was hard to escape. Multiple times, it appeared that a fight might break out. There was an unprecedented criminal indictment for a former president. Then it happened again, and again, and again. But Donald Trump was not deterred as his campaign raked in donations. And for a brief moment, we looked to the skies not with wonder but with morbid curiosity as a suspected Chinese spy balloon sucked up our attention before fighter jets were dispatched to shoot it down.

Hamas terrorists staged a brutal attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people in the worst mass killing of Jews since the Holocaust. President Joe Biden's response has roiled key elements of his party. Ukraine, the conflict that once captivated world attention, is now desperately trying to get the West to continue to support its war against Russia's invasion.

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Top Putin ally says a 'destructive civil confrontation' could happen in the US over Texas border standoff
Story by ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)  •
01/28/24

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A former Russian president and ally of Vladimir Putin taunted the Biden administration over the Texas border crisis and suggested a "destructive civil confrontation" in the US could be coming.

Dmitry Medvedev criticized "senile old man Biden" for the high numbers of migrants trying to cross into the US at the southern border in a post on X on Friday.

The dispute between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the federal government has been escalating over the state's use of razor wire to deter migrants.
Medvedev said that the possibility of establishing a "People's Republic of Texas" is getting "more and more real," days after Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested a "national divorce" between blue and red states over the issue of migration.

"This is yet another vivid example of the US hegemony getting weaker, a process that is happening from the inside, and is the result of the Americans' own actions," Medvedev wrote.

The US has been one of Ukraine's strongest international allies since Russia invaded, which has strained relations between the US and Russia.

Despite his past as a pro-West reformer, Medvedev has become one of the fiercest defenders of the war in Ukraine.

He criticized the US for its "blind" support of Ukraine and jabbed at the government, describing the border crisis as "an attack of the Great Loser's bad disease."

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The standoff at the border has been intensifying as Abbott has remained defiant after a Supreme Court ruling that said US Border Patrol agents could remove the razor wire put up by the Texas National Guard.

There is a Texas secession movement, dubbed Texit, whose de facto leader recently told Newsweek that he believes Texas could become an independent nation within three decades.

Some on social media joked that Putin had "signed a decree recognizing the independence of the Texas People's Republic."

The border standoff has catapulted debates about how to handle migration into the spotlight, with Republicans criticizing the Biden administration for high numbers of migrants.

Migration levels are reaching record levels, with US officials saying around 300,000 people tried to cross the border in December.

The dispute has inflamed loose talk of civil war and resistance from conservative media and US politicians, according to The Washington Post.


Former President Donald Trump has made stoking concerns over immigration a central plank of his campaign for his second Republican nomination for president.

Trump has often spoken of his close relationship with Putin. He continued to praise the Russian leader for being "smart" and "genius" even after he began his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.