155
Texas blocks federal border agents from processing migrants in Eagle Pass public park
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
155 points (98.1% liked)
News
23794 readers
5589 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Wait, why are people in the comments supporting Border Patrol agents? They're not exactly paragons of virtue here.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/02/us-border-patrol-broken
Texas gov is one big cluster fuck. But I'm not going to suddenly root for Border Patrol either.
I think it's more about the fact that Texas national guard, under the orders of the state governor, are blocking border patrols from being in the area to assist or respond to emergencies or do their duty. Not to say they weren't potentially going to abuse the migrants too, but letting Texas have free reign to bus who they want where they want with impunity would be a misstep in federal/state rights.
Federalize the Texas National Guard.
It's because most people expect federal law to supercede state law, so even though border patrol are wildly unpopular, they are feds.
Further, in the particular case, there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, with folks taking huge risks, and living in terrible conditions. Getting processed by the feds at least remedies the IMMEDIATE situation. Ultimately the Texas national guard is quiet quitting so to speak, just refusing to process incoming migrants. So it isn't Texas saying "we can do it better, leave us alone" they're saying "nobody touch em"
I'm fully aware there are future problems for migrants who are processed. Some are sent home, to incredibly dangerous places, some are kept in rough detention for a long time, and many other issues. No need to bring them up, it's not my point, and I'm already familiar with them.
I guarantee you the people Texas is sending are worse.
Nah Im just jealous I can't tell federal agents on my land to piss off with impunity.