A bus a day with an average load of about 20-23. We were not impressed when he came out with this plan and are less impressed now.

The jury is still out on his vehicle safety inspections at the border. Three Mexican border governors have agreed to turn back illegals from their side of the border in order to let commerce flow. Unless we get some hard data on how well that is working for those border crossings in their sectors it’s still up in the air and it’s certainly not fool proof as like water these illegals are just going to find another path to pour in from.

Meanwhile Biden in direct response to Abbott has stopped Title 42 powers early. He had planned to let the statute expire in May, but has instead completely revoked it knowing this was the green light to start the great surge where it’s expected that the current crossings of 7,000 a day can easily swell to 20,000 to 50,000 a day so that we can easily see a half million coming across each month and that is not taking into consideration the effects of world famine which at best we can only expect to get sporadic reporting on.

Just before Abbott’s recent announcement on his new policies, Tom Homan, the former acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump and Ken Cuccinelli, former Homeland Security official under Trump. both met with Abbott and argued that states are entitled to defend themselves from immediate danger or invasion, as it is defined by the “invasion clause,” under the “states self-defense clause and want Abbott to declare an invasion on the Southern Border. Abbott’s response was this milk toast plan.

Turning to this guy below to see what he has to say. Daniel Horwitz writes for The Blaze and Conservative Review and has been a consistent and trusted source on immigration news for over a decade in addition to things China Virus and being a naysayer on Ukraine though he’s narrowed his focus to the Bio Labs.

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-8-steps-states-should-take-to-stop-bidens-border-invasion

1) Texas and Arizona replace the feds on the border: Texas and Arizona must take the lead at the border itself, given their front-line status in this invasion. The governors and legislatures of those states should authorize state troopers to return any alien they catch to Mexico, regardless of federal policy. One can debate the threshold of an emergency and at what point they can no longer remain subservient to the capricious whims of federal enforcement, but clearly we have crossed that line.

2) Interior removals of criminal aliens: States should create new categories of crime through which to hold criminal aliens so that they are not released or given over to the feds. The degree of criminality from criminal aliens is unfathomable. Last month, a Daytona Beach couple was brutally murdered allegedly by a Haitian illegal alien who had already been released after committing previous crimes, in what the police chief described as the most brutal murders he’d seen in 20 years in law enforcement.

3) Publish illegal alien crimes: Every GOP-run state should publish weekly data on how many illegal aliens were arrested by criminal offense category. Unfortunately, cases like the Daytona Beach murder are not rare. This is an information war, and if the public knew the extent of the illegal alien criminality in this country and in their communities, they would raise hell with their elected officials. That is why the feds have made it so hard over the years to verify the legal status of those who commit heinous crimes. There is no reason why states can’t gather that information. They must require all local law enforcement to ascertain the nationality of anyone arrested for a crime.

4) Stop busloads of illegals at state borders: Let’s not forget that states engaged in travel bans on fellow Americans during the pandemic. If they suddenly had the power to keep out American citizens, then during a crisis of this magnitude they have the power to keep out illegal aliens. Gov. Greg Abbott stationed state troopers on highways leading into Texas from Louisiana in April 2020 to enforce quarantine rules. That should be the model to deter this invasion. States should activate their respective National Guards to interdict buses traveling to their states and reroute them to blue states.

5) Verify legal status for all state benefits: State agencies should be instructed to use the federal databases to check the legal status of anyone who applies for any state benefit, license, or official legal status.

6) Mandatory E-Verify: From the inception of this crisis, cutting off the magnet of jobs was always the most effective way to deter illegal immigration. All red states adopting this provision would, at a minimum, route the flow of illegal aliens to the blue states.

7) Prosecute identity theft: Most illegal aliens are only able to reside in this country because of identity theft, which in itself is devastating to many American citizens. States should immediately toughen penalties for identity theft and embark on a massive effort to prosecute those who engage in stolen identity.

8) Taxing remittances to Latin America: States that have income taxes should block remittances to Mexico or Central America by illegal aliens or place a prohibitive tax on them.

Taken together, these efforts will send the message to a population that works off incentives that these particular states are closed for business. At best, it will deter the invasion. At worst, it will reroute the invaders to the states that want them.

“But can a state do this?” you might ask. Well, Article I, § 10, cl. 3 allows states to even go a step further. The Compact Clause bars states from raising an army and engaging in war, but makes an exception when “actually invaded or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.” In other words, when they are in imminent danger of an invasion, they can raise an army and actually engage in war. We are merely advocating a more passive and defensive measure of just keeping out the invaders.

Short of these steps I doubt we are getting the job done and the fear is we’ll have to wait until we have the presidency back to implement some of these steps on a national level, but as he points out these are things that should be done now if only States step up.

I’m particularly fond of 1 and 4. More in his article.