McCaul Rips Biden Spox Kirby Comments About Afghan Withdrawal

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The GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday blasted the White House for dismissing the idea that the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was chaotic and shifting blame on the Trump administration for creating unfavorable conditions for the pullout.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), whose committee is leading a probe of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, ripped John Kirby, a White House spokesperson on national security issues, for his comments earlier in the day.

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Paxton Sues Biden Admin. Over Environmental Air Regs

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Attorney General Paxton has filed a petition for review challenging an order by President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) that disapproves Texas’s state implementation plan (“SIP”), which was developed in coordination with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to ensure that Texas complied with federal air quality standards.  

Under the Clean Air Act and national ambient air quality standards, states must take measures to prevent significant amounts of emissions from affecting downwind states. To implement this “good neighbor” requirement of the Clean Air Act, states put forward SIPs for federal approval.  
Attorney General Paxton has filed a petition for review challenging an order by President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) that disapproves Texas’s state implementation plan (“SIP”), which was developed in coordination with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to ensure that Texas complied with federal air quality standards.  

Under the Clean Air Act and national ambient air quality standards, states must take measures to prevent significant amounts of emissions from affecting downwind states. To implement this “good neighbor” requirement of the Clean Air Act, states put forward SIPs for federal approval.  

Attorney General Paxton has filed a petition for review challenging an order by President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) that disapproves Texas’s state implementation plan (“SIP”), which was developed in coordination with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to ensure that Texas complied with federal air quality standards.  

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Abbott: Biden Policies Will Bring Even More Migrants

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During an interview on FOX News' "Cavuto Live," Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sounding the alarm on the Biden administration's latest border initiative that is allegedly going to be attracting "even more people" to illegally enter the United States.

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Texas Republicans Demand Biden Reimburse State For Border Efforts

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The Texas Republican delegation in the US House of Representatives has written to Pres. Biden calling on him to reimburse the Lone Star State for its efforts to secure its southern border – and requesting a meeting to discuss the crisis now in its third year.

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Texas Congressman Wants Homeland Chief Impeached

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A Texas Republican has filed articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, wasting little time in the new Congress to act on a GOP priority leadership has said would come after thorough investigation.

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) filed the paperwork for the resolution on Jan. 3, the first day of the 118th Congress, though with delays in securing a House Speaker, the document was officially filed late Monday.

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Abbott Hands Letter To Biden During Border Visit: "You Failed"

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hand-delivered a scathing message to President Biden Sunday as the commander-in-chief arrived in El Paso for his first visit to the US-Mexico border since taking office.

Biden spends only three hours in El Paso in first border visit as president

Letters to the Editor — Jan. 7, 2023

“Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late,” Abbott said in a letter he handed to Biden as he stepped off Air Force One for a brief three-hour visit to El Paso, KWTX-TV reported.

“Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies,” the letter reads.

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Abbott Fires Back At Biden, Media Criticism Of Migrant Busing

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Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday pushed back against the White House's criticism of him busing more migrants to Washington, D.C., over the weekend -- where they arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris' home on Christmas Eve.

"The White House is full of a bunch of hypocrites, led by the Hypocrite-in-Chief .... Instead of their hypocritical complaints about Texas providing much-needed relief to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities, President Biden and Border Czar Harris need to step up and do their jobs to secure the border—something they continue failing to do," Renae Eze, a spokesperson for Abbott, said in a statement.

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Former Texas Congressman Hurd Wants Homeland Security Chief Fired

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CNN hosts Don Lemon and Kaitlan Collins clashed with former Republican lawmaker Will Hurd on Monday while discussing the border crisis and the end to Title 42.

Hurd, who represented a Texas border district in Congress, said President Biden's border policy was worse than former President Trump's. 

"This crisis has escalated under him. There’s other ways to do expedited removal. You also have a Title 8 authority, and what a new secretary of Homeland Security should be coming in saying ‘Listen, we’re going to use Title 8 authority to the same level that we’re using Title 42.’"

Hurd also suggested Biden get rid of border security officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, because of a lack of "credibility."

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Thousands Flood Texas Border Days Before Law Change

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Officials in El Paso, Texas, a border city that has seen an increase in migrants crossing over into the United States from Mexico, told city leaders on Monday that the numbers of people illegally crossing into the city "are unsustainable," days before Title 42 is set to expire.

El Paso Deputy City Manager Mario D'Agostino was speaking to the City Council when he laid out the latest migrant figures. He said the city was seeing an average of 2,500 apprehensions daily. Over the weekend, the Border Patrol's El Paso Sector saw a daily average of more than 2,400 migrants.

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Texas Republicans In Congress Unveil Border Security Plan

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The Texas Republican delegation in the US House unveiled a new border security proposal to push back on White House assertions that the GOP has no 'plan' to fix the southern border. 

The framework, which is made up of both legislation their delegation has already introduced and new proposals as Republicans prepare to take the House, is split up into four categories: completing the border wall, fixing border enforcement policies, enforcing laws in the interior, and targeting cartels. 

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Texas Democrats Want Federal Monitors During Election

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With Democrats panicking just days before what is expected to be a Republican tsunami at the polls, they’re pulling out every device in their bag of tricks to stave it off.

In Texas, this effort may take the form of direct intervention in the election by the now hyper-weaponized Biden Justice Department in Harris County, America’s third-largest county, which is home to Houston, America’s fourth-largest city. There, the Justice Department has been asked by the local Democratic machine to intervene in the November election by sending federal monitors. 

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Parties Call On Biden To Declare Very Different Emergencies

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As the nation continues to navigate the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, several Texas Democrats and abortion advocates called on the Biden administration to take immediate and direct action to protect Texans’ access to abortion. Meanwhile, Republicans are demanding that by declare that an " invasion" is occurring at the border and take extraordinary axtions to protect the border from further incursions by illegal immigrants.

First on the Democrat's list of requests in a letter to the White House was for President Joe Biden to declare a public health emergency to ensure telehealth providers can dispense abortion-inducing medication without interruption.

The heavily-Republican Texas legislature passed what is known as a "trigger law" last year that, in the event of Roe v Wade being overturned, abortions would all but be eliminated in the state. That has now occurred, and Biden has since pledged that he would protect abortion in every state

Republicans site the US Constitution, which guarantees states protection from invasions as justification for calling on biden to declare one has been occurring. In 2022, record numbers of migrants have been seeing and captured along the US/Mexican border. The illegal migrants have been from mexico, Central america, the Middle East, and many other regions of the world.

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Kinney County Declares "Invasion" Demands Help

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Kinney County, Texas declared a local state of disaster on Tuesday. Officials say they are being invaded by migrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border.

The declaration filed Tuesday by Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan declares that what is going on at the border an “invasion” as defined by the US and Texas constitutions and requests assistance from Pres. Biden and Gov. Abbott immediately.

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Biden's DOJ investigating Abbott's Operation Lone Star

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Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star border initiative is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) for alleged civil rights violations, reports liberal news site Newsweek.

The investigation was first reported by The Texas Tribune and the nonprofit news organization ProPublica, which said that they had obtained state records.

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Abbott Blames Biden Border Policies For San Antonio Truck Tragedy

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that the Biden administration’s illegal immigration policies are to blame, in part, after dozens of people were found dead inside a truck near San Antonio.

Hours after 50 bodies were found inside the back of an 18-wheeler truck on Monday, the Republican governor issued a Twitter post, saying, “These deaths are on [President Joe] Biden.”

“They are a result of his deadly open border policies,” Abbott wrote on the social media platform. “They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”

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Ag Commish Miller Warns Biden Admin. not to Politicize School Lunch Program

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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is warning the Biden administration to avoid tying national school meal programs to any political agenda that would impact the feeding and nourishment of Texas children. Miller said he is “prepared to take the appropriate measures to prevent the politicization of feeding Texas school children.”

Media reports have stated that the Biden Administration may withhold federal funds for school meals from school districts that do not conform to federal policy regarding gender identity, use of girls’ restrooms and locker rooms by biological males and allowing biological males to compete in female sports and athletics.

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O'Rourke Criticizes Biden For Ending Title 42 "Without A Plan"

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke knocked the Biden administration for failing to give border communities a plan for dealing with the number of migrants at their doorstep before saying he’ll end the pandemic-era emergency health order that allows federal officials to turn people away at the border next month.

“It does not make sense to end this until there is a real plan and the capacity in place to handle those and address those that come over,” O’Rourke said, in a media interview.

He has previously criticized Title 42, saying it is ineffective at stopping migrants at the border.

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Abbott Announces New Border Enforcement Efforts

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced new border enforcement efforts in the wake of the federal government's repeal of Title 42. He made the comments at a news conference in Weslaco Wednesday.

Abbott called the border situation "unprecedented" and "dangerous," citing estimates that up to 18,000 people could be illegally crossing the border each day in May, after Title 42 is repealed.

New strategies announced by Abbott at the news conference include:

- A zero tolerance policy for vehicles smuggling drugs and people across the border, resulting in increased inspections at the border

- Abbott says the state will provide charter buses to communities in which the Biden administration has dropped illegal immigrants to transport them direcly to Washington DC

- the state will create boat blockades and continue the use of shipping containers along the Texas-Mexico border, along with razor wire in low-lying areas to deter illegal crossings

- the border region will be lit at night in high traffic areas

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Texas Congressmen Warn of New "Explosion" Of Immigration After Biden Rule Change

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As the Biden administration prepares to end Title 42 in May, senior Department of Homeland Security officials are warning the agency could see an explosion of migrants at the border.

Members of the Texas Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra — urging the administration to keep Title 42.  They argued it prevents Texas cities from becoming overwhelmed by migrants.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Texas is already overwhelmed by the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The numbers are up threefold from when the Trump administration was there just a little over a year ago.

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Perry Criticizes Psaki Over Cybersecurity Threat

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Former Trump Energy Secretary and former Texas Governor Rick Perry slammed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday for denying a cybersecurity threat from Russia as President Vladimir Putin prepares to invade Ukraine. 

Perry also argued the Biden administration is hurting their climate change agenda by creating an energy production void being filled by Russia.  

"Anyone who is sitting at the White House, being the spokesperson for the president of the United States, and basically saying that there is no threat for cybersecurity needs to step away from the microphone and quit doing any more harm to America," said Perry.

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