🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 The Texas Military Department confirms the TX National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass (city property where mass illegal crossings are), and is restricting Border Patrol from accessing the area, saying the Feds “perpetuate illegal crossings”. This is the area where Border Patrol has been cutting TX razor wire. Razor wire and fences are now deployed to block the area off from the public and federal government.

Texas Military Department statement:

“The Texas National Guard has maintained a presence with security points and temporary barrier in Shelby Park since 2021. The current posture is to prepare for future illegal immigrant surges and to restrict access to organizations that perpetuate illegal immigrant crossings in the park and greater Eagle Pass area.”

📎 Bill Melugin

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 In overnight DOJ filing, Feds confirm that the TX National Guard “has deployed armed soldiers and vehicles to block federal gov from accessing the river” in Eagle Pass, & TX informed them no BP agents will be allowed to enter Shelby Park “in any operational capacity”.

This is a significant escalation by Texas after Feds fought to remove TX water barriers and razor wire, & DOJ is suing TX over its new border security law. This is potentially setting up to be the biggest state vs federal fight in a very long time.

📎 Bill Melugin

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 American Crisis: Will Texas Save Our Republic?

Last week, the United States Department of Justice announced that it will be suing Texas to stop enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 4, a law intended to allow Texas law enforcement to help enforce federal immigration law. You can read the complaint here.

If I were advising Governor Abbott, here’s what I would tell him: You are uniquely situated to be a hero by acting to stop the long-standing immigration crisis. The State and much of the nation are standing ready to support you in this effort. Here is what you must do: pose a credible threat of noncompliance with any federal order, whether administrative or judicial, that would stop you from doing what is necessary to protect Texas, and more than that, the American nation. You could call this the Old Hickory Option: “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”

📎 American Reformer

🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇺🇸 Video shows Texas National Guard denying Border Patrol agents access to Shelby Park, TX

📎 RPK Report

🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇺🇸 Texas blocks federal border agents from processing migrants in Eagle Pass public park

🔶️ Texas state officials this week abruptly blocked federal U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering and patrolling a public area in the border town of Eagle Pass where they typically first encounter migrants who cross the Rio Grande illegally, two U.S. officials told CBS News on Thursday.

🔶️ After seizing control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas National Guard units deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott have prevented Border Patrol agents from entering the area, the federal officials said. Border Patrol has used the park in recent weeks to hold migrants in an outdoor staging area before they are transported for further processing, including last month, when illegal crossings soared to record levels.

🔶️ Earlier Thursday, Texas state officials prevented Border Patrol boats from patrolling that area, one of the officials added, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

🔶️ Michael Perry, a spokesperson for the Texas Military Department, which oversees the state National Guard, said the actions taken by the state were designed to prevent illegal crossings by migrants.

🔶️ In a statement Friday regarding the events in Eagle Pass, White House spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández said Texas was seeking to "politicize the border."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-blocks-federal-border-agents-processing-migrants-eagle-pass-shelby-park/

🇺🇸❌🇺🇸❗️ — 📰 NewsNation's Ali Bradley on Twitter/X:

➡️ The state of Texas has seized all city property along the riverfront at the border in the Eagle Pass area under governors emergency powers, including federal processing locations and equipment—This is according to multiple sources.

➡️ All access to the property is limited to state authority only. Border Patrol will be permitted to enter the property to remove their equipment and supplies—Agents will not have access to the area unless there is a medical emergency.

➡️ I am told that the state plans to start arresting all who cross for criminal trespass—This is not under the new illegal entry law SB4 – They have been arresting for criminal trespass for months.

🔗 Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV)