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Video of Texas 'Holding the Line' at Border Goes Viral
Newsweak ^ | 5/12/23 | Kaitlin Lewis

Posted on 05/12/2023 9:31:21 PM PDT by Libloather

Avideo clip that captures Texas law enforcement reinforcing razor wire along its state's southern border has gone viral on Twitter in the wake of Title 42's expiration.

The 1944 health measure was enacted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic during the administration of then-President Donald Trump as a method to control the number of border crossings. Title 42 allows U.S. officials to expel migrants without going through a formal asylum process in order to prevent the spread of diseases.

However, after President Joe Biden signed a measure declaring May 11 as the end of the COVID-19 emergency in the U.S., Title 42 expired, beginning Thursday evening. Critics of the president's decision feared that without Title 42 in place, chaos could ensue in already overwhelmed border communities, prompting some Southern states to announce their own plans ahead of the policy's end date.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been one of the staunchest critics of Biden's decision to end Title 42, announced this week that he was sending hundreds of members of his state's National Guard to "border hotspots" to help repel "illegal crossings." Videos shared by Abbott on Wednesday showed Texas personnel putting up razor wire along the state's southern border as a deterrent against migrants from crossing in mass numbers.

On Thursday, roughly seven hours before Title 42 would officially be lifted, Abbott shared another video of the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Safety (DPS) affixing additional razor wire in the face of a group of migrants who had gathered along the other side of the fence dividing Texas and Mexico.

As of Friday evening, Abbott's video had reached over 2.2 million views.

"Thanks to the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety," Abbott wrote alongside the 30-second-clip.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; borderwall; texas; viral
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Water cannons. I'm a big fan of water cannons.
1 posted on 05/12/2023 9:31:21 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Not much on the video. Looks like a normal day at the border to me. People walk up, they walk in. Someone gives them an Obamaophone and they’re off.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 9:40:09 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Libloather

How about land mines and guard towers with snipers while we’re at it.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 9:42:45 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Wonder if the brand of razor wire was Harry’s Razor blades “Long Lasting Titanium Coated Blades that Adjust To Contours.”


4 posted on 05/12/2023 9:49:22 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: crusty old prospector

Obamaphone on first use says “By starting this device you have agreed to be a registered Democrat.”


5 posted on 05/12/2023 9:51:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

“Sorry, me no speaky English. Trade Obamaophone for beef jerky. I am off to some place called Martha’s Vineyard.”


6 posted on 05/12/2023 9:59:29 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: frank ballenger

They can all be geo tracked through the smart phones so Trump can have them rounded up later and deported.


7 posted on 05/12/2023 10:11:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Libloather

We don’t need no stinkin Title 42. Just seal the border. Why not stack leftist bodies 40 feet tall? Works for me.


8 posted on 05/12/2023 10:11:29 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Just for the cameras. Just Kabuki Theater..

In many places they stretch out a hundred yards of Concertina wire, then instruct the invaders to go around.

In other places where they stretch a thousand or so meters out, the invaders throw blankets, coats, boards, whatever is avaiilable over it and climb past. Some of the invaders get in such a hurry that they slip off the padding and into the wire. But never fear, there are troops, Cops and Border Patrol there with wirecutters to cut them out and get them on ambulances to take them to nearby US hospitals.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 10:50:34 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Libloather

The wall with hi tech is the best. It stops some and it deelays many. They are easier to capture.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 11:22:27 PM PDT by amihow (It is Western Civilization that confers privilege, not whiteness. Ask Carson, MLK, Sowell.)
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To: LegendHasIt

And you know this...how?


11 posted on 05/12/2023 11:24:48 PM PDT by jy8z (Everything you think, do and say is from the pill you took today.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“”Trump can have them rounded up later and deported””

President Eisenhower deported over a million in the 1950s. Today, there would be at least several million volunteers willing to assist in locating and deporting all the new Obama / Biden Regime voters.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 11:25:56 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Libloather

How dare a nation defend its borders....


13 posted on 05/13/2023 12:36:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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"How about land mines and guard towers with snipers while we’re at it."

A migrant stepping on a land mine would become a refried beaner.

He would not have the guts to do it again

14 posted on 05/13/2023 1:56:38 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

>> Today, there would be at least several million volunteers willing to assist in locating and deporting all the new Obama / Biden Regime voters.

For the sake of argument, let’s say we have 10 million “immigrants” subject to deportation. (I’m not going to quibble about the number, maybe it’s 20, whatever.)

10 million * $1000 bounty on each head (dead or alive) = $10 billion — chump change in today’s spendthrift government world.

As you say, I think millions would volunteer to help with this effort. I know I would.

(by the way, the “dead or alive” on the bounty is optional, but it might help encourage quite a few of ‘em to SELF-deport. ;-) )


15 posted on 05/13/2023 3:20:02 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Libloather

I’m thinking Squid Game...


16 posted on 05/13/2023 4:14:38 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Libloather
The "HOLDING THE LINE!" video is all bogus bull$#it. It's a distraction, a head fake.

That video goes viral, giving you hope, while the truth is the migrants are being re-directed to the big crossing points where they are put on buses and sent out all night every night.

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17 posted on 05/13/2023 4:36:57 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Libloather

I am a big fan of M109A1 howitzers, hub-to-hub, shell beehive.


18 posted on 05/13/2023 4:56:14 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Redleg Duke

Correction…M101A1 howitzers.

The M109s have to use KJ (Killer Junior)!


19 posted on 05/13/2023 4:58:22 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Travis McGee

I’m 100% all in for bussing the illegals...
back to Mexico.


20 posted on 05/13/2023 5:05:45 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (I stayed drug - free going on 63 years for this?)
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