The Border Patrol Agents Union agrees to cooperate, but Texas rejects the Biden administration’s request for complete access to the border park.
Texas and the Biden administration are engaged in a heated dispute concerning Shelby Park located in Eagle Pass, Texas. Due to the park’s increased immigration, there is currently a heated conflict between federal agents and Texas National Guard troops. Texas has been ordered by the Department of Homeland Security to follow their directives and grant Border Patrol agents entry into the park.
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Texas was given until Friday to reply and comply with the demand. Rather than complying with the demand, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected it in a letter to Department of Homeland Security General Counsel Jonathan Meyer.
“Presumably because you have no meaningful response to our letter, your latest letter abandons earlier factual assertions, asserts new ones, and supplies even less of a legal basis for your demand. Once again, I respectfully suggest that any time you might spend suing Texas should be redirected toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books,” Paxton wrote.
The letter disputes the federal government’s assertions that it has the right to use certain areas of the park. It criticizes a government-provided map, calling it erroneous and pointing out that records that are open to the public dispute the government’s claims.
In the letter, it is made clear that an agreement between Eagle Pass and the federal government to access particular land has not received the required state approval, making it illegal.
“The 2018 easement, however, nowhere contemplates allowing the federal government to deploy infrastructure that President Biden will use to wave thousands of illegal aliens into a park that will ‘continue to [be] use[d] and enjoy[ed]’ for ‘recreation events,’” the letter said.
“As I said before, this office will continue to defend Texas’s efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the Biden Administration to undermine the State’s constitutional right of self-defense. You should advise your clients to join us in those efforts by doing their job and following the law,” he wrote.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says his state has a constitutional duty to deal with illegal immigration. As a result, according to Newsweek, Democratic Texas lawmakers Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar have urged President Joe Biden to take over federal authority over the Texas National Guard.
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According to Paxton, the dispute will be settled through the courts rather than by forceful means, as Fox News reported.
The Border Patrol union released a strong statement on X in the middle of these developments.
“Rank-and file BP agents are not going to start arresting TX NG members for following their LAWFUL orders. That’s fake news. TX NG and rank-and-file BP agents work together and respect each other’s jobs. Period,” the union posted.
“If TX NG members have LAWFUL orders, then they have to carry out those orders. TX NG members realize that rank-and-file BP agents have their orders as well. Lawful orders, no matter how unpopular or distasteful amongst rank-and-file agents, must be followed,” the post said.
Liberals expecting a Fort Sumter moment would be let down, the post said.
“Unlawful orders (as determined by competent legal counsel and not what some outhouse lawyer behind a keyboard says) will not be followed. Rank-and-file BP agents appreciate and respect what TX has been doing to defend their state in the midst of this catastrophe that the Biden Admin has unleashed on America,” the post said.
“We want to be perfectly clear, there is no fight between rank-and-file BP agents and the TX NG, Gov. Abott, or TX DPS. It may make flashy headlines, but it simply isn’t true,” the post concluded.
