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WILL: TEX MEET PETE TEXAS TRYING
TO EASE THE SURGE AT THE
SOUTHERN BORDER BY BUSING
ILLEGALS TO DEMOCRAT-RUN
SANCTUARY CITIES BUT WHAT IF THE
LOAN STAR STATE COULD STOP THE
SURGE ITSELF WITH A FLUE LAW
SURPASSING THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT, THEY COEN FORCE THE
BORDER DEPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
DIRECTLY?
IS THAT POSSIBLE?
WE ASKED LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DAN
PATRICK ON OUR SHOW YESTERDAY.
WILL: THE BILL YOU’RE CRAFTING
DOES THAT EMPOWER TEXAS DPS OR
TEXAS RANGERS TO DEPORT ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS?
>> THAT IS THREE MONTHS AWAY BUT
LET ME ASSURE YOU THIS, WE WILL
WRITE STRONG LEGISLATION, MAKES
SURE, THAT THERE IS NO QUESTION
WE HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTECT OUR
CITIZENS.
PETE: TO INCLUDE DEPORTATION?
TO INCLUDE DEPORTATION?
>> GUYS, LET ME WRITE A BILL
FIRST.
LET ME NOT WRITE IT HERE ON THE
AIR ON SATURDAY MORNING.
PETE: HERE TO BREAK DOWN WHAT
LEGALLY CAN BE DONE FORMER
ACTING DHS SECRETARY
KEN CUCCINELLI.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
WE PRESSED THE LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR.
THAT IS MORE POW OTHERFUL IN
STATE OF TEXAS, SOME WOULD SAY
MORE THAN THE GOVERNOR.
HE WOULDN’T WANT TO ANSWER IT.
HE IS WRITING A BILL THAT WILL
TAKE UP TO WRITE WHEN THE
LEGISLATURE IS BACK IN SESSION.
WHAT SHOULD THE BUILD LOOK LIKE?
DO THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT
AUTHORITY?
A LOT OF QUESTIONS HERE.
>> SO THE AUTHORITY TO REMOVE,
DEPORT IS AN IMMIGRATION WORD
BUT TEXAS HAS THE CONETUTIONAL
AUTHORITY UNDER THE VERY LAST
PART OF ARTICLE I, ARTICLE I,
SECTION 10, PARAGRAPH 3, WHEN IT
IS ACTUALLY INVADED IT CAN
EXERCISE WAR POWERS.
NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT TANKS
AND PLANES.
WE’RE LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT A
STATE VERSION OF TITLE 42.
THAT IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE
OPERATIONALLY.
BUT IT IS BASED ON TEXAS’S
CONSTITUTIONAL POWER TO DEFEND
ITSELF.
THEY DO NOT NEED TO PASS A BILL.
THE GOVERNOR HAS THIS AUTHORITY
TO DECLARE THE INVASION AND TO
DEPLOY TEXAS RESOURCES, NATIONAL
GUARD, THEIR DPS, SO FORTH TO DO
THAT.
THAT INCLUDES THE KEY POWER IS
THE ABILITY TO REMOVE PEOPLE
WITHOUT BEING IN THE IMMIGRATION
SYSTEM.
SO THEY CAN TAKE THEM BACK TO
THE BORDER AND PUT THEM STRAIGHT
ACROSS THE BORDER.
AND WHILE THAT’S POLITICALLY
CHALLENGING THE AUTHORITY EXISTS
IN THE CONSTITUTION.
STATES DIDN’T GIVE IT UP, THE
ABILITY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES
WHEN THEY CREATED THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT.
HERE WE HAVE A FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT NOT PROTECTING OUR
STATES, ESPECIALLY THE BORDER
STATES FROM INVASION.
OVER IN ARIZONA YOU HEAR KERRY
LAKE, SHE WILL DO THIS.
PETE: YES.
>> IT DOES NOT REQUIRE
LEGISLATION.
PETE: YOU’RE SAYING IT DOES NOT
REQUIRE LEGISLATION.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT THE THREE
MONTHS.
THE OTHER QUESTION, WHY HAVE
THEY WAITED THUS FAR THEN?
IS IT JUST WHAT YOU KIND OF
MENTIONED, THE POLITICS ARE
REALLY TOUGH.
I MEAN IS THAT IT?
THEY’RE SCREAMING FROM THE
ROOFTOP THEY’RE SAYING THE WORD
INVASION.
IN FACT LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SAID
IT MULTIPLE TIMES ON OTHER
PROGRAM YESTERDAY.
>> YES FIGHT FIGHT WHY.
PETE: WHY NOT MAKE THAT
DECLARATION.
WHY HAVE THEY WAITED?
>> I THINK THEY WANTED TO SEE IF
OPERATION LONESTAR WOULD DO THE
JOB.
IT HASN’T.
THEY HAVE GOTTEN MORE DRUG
SEIZURES.
WITH THE SHEER SIZE OF DRUG
SEIZURES AT THE BORDER, ASK YOUR
LOCAL COPS WHAT IS THE STREET
PRICE OF FENTANYL HAPPENED TO IT
LAST FEW YEARS, HEROIN?
EVERY HARD DRUG COMES OVER THE
SOUTHERN BORDER.
THE PRICES HAVE PLUMMETED.
THE SUPPLY, CARTELS ARE GETTING
THEM IN HERE AS EASY AS THEY
WOULD LIKE.
AND SO LONESTAR IS NOT WORKING.
THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE CROSSING
THE TEXAS BORDER, WE’LL JUST
ZERO IN ON TEXAS, THAT IS WHAT
WE’RE TALKING ABOUT, HAS GONE
UP, NOT DOWN.
SO IF THE ULTIMATE AMERICA SURE
IS STOPPING THE INVASION, IT
HASN’T DONE IT.
HERE THEY ARE A YEAR-AND-A-HALF
LATER BUT THEY ARE, WHAT, A
MONTH, MONTH 1/2 FROM AN
ELECTION.
IT WOULD PROBABLY LOOK RATHER
POLITICAL TO DO IT NOW, FRANKLY.
BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY
SHOULDN’T DO IT.
ON THE OTHER HAND YOU HAVE KERRY
LAKE, WHO IS BEING VERY OPEN IN
ARIZONA SAYING LOOK, IF YOU
ELECT ME, THIS IS PART OF WHAT
YOU GET.
I APPRECIATE THAT
FORTHRIGHTNESS.
AND IT IS AN OPTION THAT
GOVERNORS HAVE IF THEY WANT TO
WRITE LEGISLATION ON SOMETHING,
THEY MIGHT DO A PUBLIC HEALTH
ORDER, LIKE THE FEDERAL TITLE 42
ORDER AND ATTEMPT TO GO THAT
ROUTE BUT THAT’S A LITTLE MORE
COMPLICATED FRANKLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY ALREADY HAVE
AS YOU NOTED THE POWER TO TAKE
CARE OF THIS PROBLEM THEMSELVES
AND, BY THE WAY, OTHER
GOVERNORS, DESANTIS, RICKETTS IN
NEBRASKA, OTHER GOVERNORS, NOEM,
WE’LL SEND PEOPLE, THAT IS WAR
RON ZEVON, WE’LL SEND LAWYERS,
GUNS AND MONEY.
THEY WILL SEND PEOPLE TO BE
DEPUTIZED INTO THE TEXAS CHAIN
OF COMMAND TO GIVE THEM THE
MANPOWER TO PULL THIS OFF.
PETE: THERE IS A LIMIT HOW MUCH
YOU CAN SAY WE’RE BEING INVADED
AND TALK ABOUT THE CRISIS BUT
THEN AS YOU’RE SAYING NOT USE A
TOOL AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO
ACTUALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN.
KEN CUCCINELLI.
>> THAT’S RIGHT.
PETE: THANKS FOR BREAKING --
>> WHILE SAYING WE’RE DOING
EVERYTHING WE CAN.
PETE: SAYING YOU’RE DOING
EVERYTHING BUT YOU’RE NOT.
THE REASONS WHY THE QUESTIONS
WERE ASKED YESTERDAY AND DODGED