Say who you are and where you're watching me from in this one, we're gonna talk about the fact that
governor Abbott of Texas has signed an executive order to, uh, allow the national guard to round up
immigrant and bring them back to the border. It is huge. It is a very broad executive order.
I'm gonna take you into the language and, um, provide details about what in the world
does he even have the authority to do this who will be impacted in Texas and, um, some other
issues related to this guys, if you're joining this session and you're new to me, welcome,
I'm Latoya McBean POY. Thank you so much for being with me in this one. I've been thinking about this
for the past few days, since the governor signed this executive order, I wanted to, um,
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so that you'll be the first to get notice of these sessions and videos each week. So let's talk about
Texas. I spoke with you about Florida several days ago, right? So you have Florida, you have Texas,
you have Georgia, you have some, we have some very tough, tough action that is being taken by certain
Southern states around immigration. And this one guys has to be the toughest that I've seen so
far. And let's get into this executive order that the governor signed just a few weeks, uh, a few
days ago that is authorizing the Texas national guard and the Texas department of public safety
to return illegal immigrant to the border. This is the governor's press release issued on June,
July 7th about this issue. And it says that governor Abbott today issued an executive order
authorizing and empowering The Texas national guard
and the Texas department of public safety to apprehend illegal immigrants who illegally cross
the border between ports of entry and return them to the border. He then goes on to site title 42.
The fact that title 42 is ending and the remain in Mexico policy, um, is also ending. And so,
uh, they're concerned obviously about, um, the rise of migrants crossing the borders
illegally, and they cite that. Um, they cite a July 4th number July 4th weekend number here,
5,000 migrants who are apprehended during that weekend. And the governor says while Texas,
while president Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress,
the state of Texas is once again, stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect
Americans and secure our Southern border and the cartels or the drug cartels have become emboldened
and enriched by president by open border policies, smuggling in record numbers of people,
weapons and deadly drugs like fentanyl. And then he cites some federal, um, sites
article four of the constitution, um, uh, and says that the Biden administration has abandoned
article four, section four of the constitution that the United States shall protect each state
in the union against invasion and some other things there. And so let's, we're gonna,
I'm gonna now, um, uh, I'm gonna also take you into the executive order itself, the language
so that you can see how incredibly broad this is and the fact that it has the potential
of basically impacting any undocumented or illegal, whatever the terminology is that you
wanna use. You fight over the terminology and the comments I'm not gonna get into semantics,
but whatever, um, immigrants that they catch, who had committed a federal crime or a broke a federal
law, the language says these, the national guard and the department of public safety
have the authority through this executive order to send those people back to the border.
So let's take a look at the actual language of his, uh, executive order now.
Okay. So here we have July 7th, uh, executive order, um, related to returning illegal immigrant
to the border. Okay. And so it starts off with all of these, whereas which provides,
um, some data and some, um, uh, basis for why the executive order was drafted. And I'm gonna just,
but let's just go down to this section here where it tells you what the executive order will do.
It says, um, now there now, therefore I, Greg Abbot, governor of Texas by virtue of the power
and authority vested in me by the constitution and laws of the state of Texas, do hereby authorize
and empower the Texas national guard and the Texas department of public safety to respond to
this illegal immigration by apprehend immigrant who cross the border between ports of entry
or commit other violations of federal law and to return those illegal immigrants
to the border at a port of entry. And then it says that the executive order
shall remain in effect and in full force, unless it is modified, amended, rescinded,
or superseded by the govern, uh, by the governor. And, um, so it's in effect, okay. It's in effect
with his, with the seal there. And now, you know, again, this language is incredibly broad,
okay. Incredibly broad immigrants who cross the border between ports of entry
or commit other violations of federal law. And so now the governor and that's, uh,
in Texas, um, is taken, uh, overreaching. Okay. This is obviously clearly an overreach of powers.
And that's what we're seeing here under the Biden administration. The states are fighting against
the federal government in a way that we haven't seen happen in long time. The state is saying
we will rise up and enforce federal law. You're not gonna do it. You're not doing it.
We're not satisfied with how you're handling the situation. The situation is actually getting
worse. And from our standpoint, and we need to do something about it and here's what we're gonna do,
uh, whether you like it or not. And, uh, that's, that's, what's happening in Texas now. And
you, if you speak to any constitutional lawyer, um, or listen to them on the news,
you will probably hear them say, this governor doesn't have the right to do this. He doesn't
have the right to take immigration law and do with it as he chooses returning people to the border,
without considering what immigration law has to say about those people and how those people, um,
should be treated. Um, some people have some rights, uh, under our immigration
laws that Congress wrote. Others Do not have much if any. Right.
Um, right. And so the issue here is what is his ultimate motive? What is he trying to accomplish?
So, um, obviously there's a political agenda, right? We're approaching presidential election
season. It's never too early for that, but we're approaching it in a very serious way. It's coming
up very quickly. So you have the postin going on potentially like what's happening in Florida with
governor DeSantis. So there's the postin. Um, then there's also the issue of, well, there's
a conservative Supreme court. Now, why not push things as far as we could possibly push it, um,
and let it go through the process and make its way up to the conservative court for them to make a
decision on, and maybe we'll get our, will be able to get our way or have our way, right. So there's,
you know, there's that consideration. They wanna potentially force,
um, something that could go all the way up to the Supreme court to, to look at and decide on. And,
and then there's this issue with the Biden administration. Obviously they're not really
doing much of anything around immigration. They've been a huge disappointment, um, for
pretty much everyone for everyone. Okay. Um, I think that's, it's pretty well known that,
you know, the, the reins, his presidential, um, popularity is very, very low, very, very low,
and going into the midterm elections, there's a lot of prediction out there that it's going to be
a real tough time for Democrats in November. And so you have all of these things happening. Then
you have remain in, in Mexico, you have title 42, you have a number of things that's happening. And
it's, it's creating this opportunity for states like Texas and Florida to rise up and basically
take over immigration laws and enforce it the way that they want to enforce it.
And then to push the issues all the way up to the Supreme court for the Supreme court to decide on.
So I think there's a lot of, I think all of those issues are at play here in Texas. And, um,
it's gonna be interesting to see in the coming days, how the governor and the national guard,
others enforce this executive order. And, um, and whether they're gonna, whether they're gonna
be successful with actually returning people to the border, we'll see in the coming days,
in my opinion, is this the way to handle it? Uh, no, of course not. We need to enforce our borders.
We need to enforce our laws, actually secure the borders. I think that all of that makes sense.
We have to do that. We need borders, right? We don't, it's, it's wrong for migrants to, um, in
mass numbers that we're seeing now in a very organized and coordinated way, um, you know,
just to do what they're doing right now. I think that there has to be some enforcement in
place. There has to be some sort of enforcement, but for Texas to do this and overreach,
that's also, in my opinion, not the way to do it. And they're, they don't have the jurisdiction to
do what they're asserting to do or attempting to do at this point. So that's my 2 cents on this
issue in Texas, it's gonna be really fascinating to see how this plays out over the next few weeks
and months, and whether it will all ultimately make its way to the highest court in our country,
guys. That's those are my thoughts. Hope you enjoyed, uh, being with me in this session. If
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