Arkansas joins Texas in border enforcement lawsuit
Arkansas is involved in a lawsuit that was filed against Texas by the Biden administration with support of Mexico.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed an amicus brief recently in support of a Texas law which would make it a state crime -- enforceable by state law enforcement authorities -- to cross the U.s.-mexico border without authorization.
He is joined by officials from 21 other states who are not directly involved in the court case but who are lobbying the Fifth District Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overturn a previous ruling which had struck down the law.
Other states joining with Griffin include Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Since the Biden administration transports those entering illegally to other states, these states told the court every state in the nation has become a border state.
Texas Senate Bill 4 was challenged by the U.S. Justice Department on the grounds that it would “intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens.”
In other words, the Biden administration is telling the court it has the right not to enforce federal immigration law without states trying to fill the void.
“Texas cannot run its own immigration system,” the Department of Justice wrote in a January complaint against the State of Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety and its director.
The Mexican government has filed a claim that the Texas anti-illegal immigration law would impinge on Mexico’s “sovereign right” to determine who enters and leaves the country.
In other words, Mexico claims the right to allow its citizens to enter the United States illegally as well as allow citizens from other countries who entered Mexico illegally do so if they go to the U.S. and not stay in Mexico.
That law would allow Texas law enforcement officers to arrest illegal invaders and allow state judges to order them deported.
Texas has argued in court that the law is necessary due to the Biden administration’s complete failure to secure the southern border and enforce immigration law.
The Biden-controlled federal government provides many welfare benefits such as free food, free housing, and even free cell phones.
This free housing comes at a time that Biden policies have made if difficult for U.S. citizens to own a home.
The offer of free stuff for invading American soil has attracted millions of people. Those coming at Biden’s invitation don’t just come from Mexico and South American nations.
Many of those crossing the border are from places like Communist China, Russia and Iran that would love to plant sleeper agents and spies in this country.
All of them travel through Mexico to get to the unguarded border of the U.S.
In its brief, Mexico argues that the law going into effect creates a “substantial tension” on U.s.-mexico relations, including trade, and could also lead to discrimination against Mexican nationals.
“Mexico is deeply concerned that S.B. 4 will be applied in a discriminatory manner and fears that its enforcement will lead to improper harassment, detention, removal, and criminalization of Mexican citizens and individuals of Latino appearance,” the brief reads.
So Mexico is happy for some of its citizens to illegally move to the United States, but is concerned about how Mexican people living illegally in the United States will be treated just because they violated American immigration laws.
Mexico has also expressed concern that the law would result in the removal of illegal invaders to Mexico “regardless of their nationality and without regard for Mexico’s own policies regarding entry into its territory or the noncitizens’ desire to enter Mexico.”
In other words it is okay with Mexico if hardened criminals and mental institution patients from countries like Venezuela cross Mexico to enter the U.S. illegally but Mexico does not want them back when they get deported.
Venezuela is saving a lot of money by emptying its prisons and mental institutions and shipping them north to the USA.
Griffin is right to join in this fight to stop the illegal invasion of our country.