Texas announced that their National Guard troops are busy rolling out miles of concertina “razor” wire, along the north bank of the Rio Grande. This state isn’t sitting around waiting for Title 42 to expire, they’re actively planning to defend themselves from the impending invasion.
Texas takes a stand
According to an official statement from the Texas Military Department, their state National Guard “has begun utilizing concertina wire on the border of Mexico along the Rio Grande.” It’s meant to “deter trespassing.”
Considering that concertina is basically a coil of razor blades, “trying to push through any type of razor wire without proper protection can cause severe lacerations.” It might not stop everyone but it should cut down the flow considerably. It’s economical too. The wire “unrolls in a helical shape to cover the most area possible.”
Fox News gave them a jingle and they were thrilled to talk about the program. “Operation Lone Star has currently constructed more than 17 miles of concertina wire along the South West border to continue to prevent, detour, and interdict transnational criminal activity and illegal migration,” the department brags.
Texas intends to “install concertina wire along state property and private property with consent of the property owners.”
The whole idea, the spokesperson informs, is to work with their partners in the region to find “effective and efficient ways” to secure the porous border. This isn’t the first idea Texas tried and probably won’t be the last either.
Razor wire, they say, is “only the latest in decades of initiatives attempting to slow illegal immigration from Mexico.” The flood has been overwhelming since Joe Biden pried his way into office.
Migration an emergency
So many refugees from across the globe, but mostly Latin America, overwhelmed the border in recent months that the invasion has been “declared an emergency by many states along the Mexican border.” Governors are wondering why in the name of national security Biden and his handlers are encouraging it to happen.
All they can say is that half of them are supposed to go back. The rest get a cell phone and a bus trip to a destination of their choice. Texas started busing them to D.C., followed by Arizona. The progressives loved the idea so much, they rolled out an upgrade.
Alejandro Mayorkas recently announced that migrants will soon be bused to all sorts of popular destinations inside the interior of the American heartland.
Meanwhile migrants are headed to Texas like a marching army. They’ve massed in southern Mexico and were expected to arrive timed with the ongoing Summit of the Americas.
Democrats were expecting Title 42 to have faded into the sunset of history by now but a federal judge put a restraining order in place keeping it in force. That, experts say, is only a temporary stopgap measure.
Texas, Arizona, and California are bracing for an expected 18,000 asylum seekers showing up every single day, while supplies last. Biden continues to believe that if he asks nicely that they stay home, they’ll all listen.