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The feud between the Biden administration and the state of Texas over the southern border has set the stage for one of the biggest immigration fights between the federal government and a state government in more than a decade. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently had his authorities seize city property along the southern border, arresting migrants crossing illegally for trespassing, which the federal government has vocally opposed. The Biden administration subsequently asked the Supreme Court to intervene, arguing that Texas is overstepping its authority, sparking a legal battle the high court hasn’t seen since 2012. “Courts traditionally have said...

Officials attempting to transport migrants from the southern border to New York City appear to have found a workaround to an executive order aimed at limiting the number of asylum seekers in the Big Apple. New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday issued an executive order placing limits for on how migrants arrive in the city, The New York Times reported. It was an attempt to push back against Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's efforts to send asylum seekers to the city. However, Politico reported Sunday that buses of migrants had arrived at various New Jersey train stations. The...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is deploying National Guard troops in M113 armored personnel carrier to various positions along the border after earlier threatening to use gunboats in an attempt to quell the influx of migrants at the border. The news comes after Abbott invoked a Constitutional clause on Wednesday warning President Joe Biden that the Lone Star state would go rogue to defend itself from what he calls a migrant 'invasion' at the southern border. Texas Military Department officials ordered the 10 armored personnel carriers on Thursday and announced around 50 soldiers would be trained to operate them. Armored personnel...

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has won re-election in Texas, defeating Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke. The pro-life governor defeated his pro-abortion challenge after a race where O’Rourke used abortion as the main issue of his campaign. Abbott was first elected in 2014 to the position that Republicans have held in the state since 1995. The Democrat’s top television ad attacked Abbott for protecting babies from abortion. O’Rourke, appearing to conserve his cash for later in the campaign, skipped running any biographical spots and made a light buy on Aug. 25 for an ad attacking Abbott-backed laws that virtually ban abortion in...

As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis send busloads of illegal aliens to strategically-selected Democrat strongholds, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is climbing aboard the Abbott-DeSantis Express.Cruz on Friday urged Abbott and DeSantis to bus illegals to three new liberal areas after the national news was dominated by Abbott’s shipment of roughly 100 illegals to the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in D.C. in front of the residence of Kamala Harris — who continues to insist the border is “secure” — and Desantis sent 50 illegals to the smug Democrat enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, sending wealthy liberals...

For years many of us have been screaming for the GOP to just get on the field. Too often the muckety-mucks led by the McRomneys run and hide with any controversial issue (abortion, for example) and hide behind "muh tax cuts." So far, no one has provided an inside look at exactly how Greg Abbott/Ken Paxton in Texas or Ron DeSantis in Florida actually arrived at the conception of what I'll call "Operation Alinsky #4" but whoever and however they did it, it was genius on multiple levels. And it is anything but a "stunt." It is the single best...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott started sending asylum-seekers (illegals) to D.C. in April and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey followed his lead in May Since then, the two states have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser blasts Texas and Arizona GOP governors for sending migrants by the busload to the nation's capital, claiming they are to blame for the boost in overcrowded homeless shelters.... Bowser assured that D.C. taxpayers are not picking up the tab for the increased homeless population with the migrants from Texas and Arizona.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order Thursday allowing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas National Guard to arrest and return illegal migrants to the border. “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. The cartels have become emboldened and enriched by President Biden’s open border policies, smuggling in record numbers of people, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl,” Abbott said in a statement.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The State acquired a large quantity of 30-foot wall panels from the Biden Administration to utilize in the construction of a border wall. The materials came from federal contracts cancelled in January 2021. “Texas is the first state ever to build a border wall,” Governor Abbott began in an exclusive interview. “A lot of the border wall is being built by border wall material that there was a contract for, Texas bought it from contractors who built the wall for President Trump. We’re building the exact same wall.” “In addition, a lot of people saw on...

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for the Frankenstein monster's body.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology canceled a lecture by geophysicist Dorian Abbot amid criticism of his views on campus diversity efforts. In the opinion piece, Abbot and professor Ivan Marinovic criticized diversity, equity and inclusion standards as "treating people as members of a group rather than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century." "It treats persons as merely means to an end, giving primacy to a statistic over the individuality of a human being," they wrote in the opinion piece. His position over college diversity efforts sparked pushback from many academics on social media...

"Governor Abbott is in constant communication with his staff, agency heads, and government officials to ensure that state government continues to operate smoothly and efficiently," his office said. Abbott is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment and plans to isolate in the Governor's Mansion. His wife Cecilia Abbott tested negative.

President Joe Biden blamed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Tuesday for the ongoing rise in coronavirus cases in their states. “Just two states, Florida and Texas, account for one-third of all new COVID-19 cases in the entire country, just two states,” he said. Biden was sharply critical of Republican governors who were enacting bans on mask mandates, even for vaccinated Americans. “I say to these governors, please help. But if you’re not going to help, at least get out of the way of the people that are trying to do the right thing,”...

Texas Governor Pledges To Sign Law Prohibiting Businesses From Requiring Vaccine PassportsCarnival Cruise Line recently announced that it will resume cruising in Galveston, Texas beginning in July and will require passengers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is disputing Carnival’s vaccine mandate.Abbott announced Monday he would be signing a law that prevents “businesses operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports any vaccine information.”“Texas is open 100% without any restrictions or limitations or requirements,” Abbott tweeted.I’m signing a law today that prohibits any business operating in Texas from requiring vaccine passports or any vaccine information.Texas is open...

...We must work together to prevent this insanity.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Friday that he will roll back some of the state’s reopening as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise.

We live very close to the Louisiana state line. So close, that to get to a small Texas town south of us, the shortest way is to go through a part of Louisiana. On a trip to that small town south of us today, my wife encountered several Texas DPS officers on US 84 stopping out of state cars with Louisiana tags. It appears governor Abbot is enforcing the ban on non-essential people coming from Louisiana to Texas.

White Simple “MONKS WERE UNKNOWN IN SYRIA before St. Hilarion,” says his historian St. Jerome. “He instituted the monastic life in that country, and was the master of those who embraced it. The Lord Jesus had his Anthony in Egypt and his Hilarion in Palestine, the former advanced in years, the latter still young.” Now our Lord very soon raised this young man to such glory that Anthony would say to the sick, who came to him from Syria attracted by the fame of his miracles: “Why take the trouble to come so far when you have near you...

White Simple “A SIMPLE AND UPRIGHT MAN, and fearing God, and avoiding evil:” such is the description of the just man in the lessons of the night Office for the time, and it is the portrait of the holy monk whom the Church offers us today for our admiration, our imitation, and our devotion. Fleeing from men in order to find God, he quitted his native land, where his rank, and still more his virtues, prevented him from being unknown. He wandered from the coasts of Greece to the borders of the Rhone, and stopped at length in the...