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“This is not over,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted on Monday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Border Patrol agents can cut the razor-wire border barriers along the Rio Grande. The court granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration allowing federal agents to access the Texas border with Mexico being fenced off by the Texas Military Department.

Texans are being praised for standing up to pro-Palestinian hecklers as Gov. Greg Abbott reminded them Hamas is a terrorist organization.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Army National Guard soldiers remain posted at temporary gates erected at the entrance to a city-owned park along the Rio Grande. The park was seized by order of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and closed off to Border Patrol agents unless their entrance into the area is first coordinated with state law enforcement and the Texas Military Department.

A strongly worded letter from the Department of Homeland Security to the State of Texas demands access to the U.S.-Mexico border on land seized by the State in Eagle Pass. DHS officials ordered the State to cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around Shelby Park “and remove all barriers to access” by the end of the day on January 17.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is pushing back against accusations that the Texas Military Department refused to allow Border Patrol agents to enter a city park in the heart of downtown Eagle Pass to rescue a migrant family who later drowned. The governor called the claim “wholly inaccurate.” On Sunday evening, Abbott posted a rebuttal to the accusations on X (formerly Twitter), saying the deaths of a migrant woman and her two children were because of the “Biden Open Border magnet.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Friday begging him to stop sending migrant buses and planes to Chicago as frigid temperatures are on their way.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stated that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) doesn’t see people crossing the border as people “who are trying to do exactly what the Statue of Liberty says, which is,

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Trenton, NJ Mayor Reed Gusciora criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for not warning when they’re going to send migrants to the city and acknowledged that Texas hasn’t

Mayor Eric Adams (D) is suing several Texas-based charter and bus companies for not covering costs associated with illegal immigration when busing border crossers and illegal aliens to New York City.

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) criticized the hypocrisy of blue state governors and mayors who have criticized him and his state’s effort to send illegal immigrants to their so-called sanctuary cities and states.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Texas to stop state officials from having illegal aliens arrested and ordered deported. 

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) reacted to the U.S. Department of Justice suing Texas over its new immigration law allowing state officials to arrest and seek the deportation of people who

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated that New York City busing migrants out of the city is different from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) busing them to the city because “We’re

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “is pathetic” in response to the secretary’s comments on MSNBC blaming the record-shattering December migrant apprehensions on climate change.

The Biden administration has asked SCOTUS to allow the U.S. Border Patrol to remove razor wire at barricades along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

New Jersey officials are reporting seeing illegal aliens being dropped off by buses at train stations where they are catching trains to continue traveling into New York City on the tail of a series of restrictive measures enacted by Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams aimed at limiting migrant buses from entering the city.

On Monday’s “CNN News Central,” Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez stated that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sending migrants to the city and a lack of federal support means that “our whole community’s at the brink of collapse” and is

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is continuing to transport illegal migrants to Chicago despite a new city ordinance targeting busing, with eight busloads heading into the sanctuary city Sunday morning after hundreds of asylum seekers were flown in overnight.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) was “determined to continue to sow seeds of chaos” with migrant transport to his cities.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” said that Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) needed to coordinate sending migrants to cities so it can be done in a “humanitarian way.”

On Friday’s “CNN This Morning,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stated that local economies are going to be crushed by the migrant “crisis” and that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is “governing out of fear.” Johnson said, “[W]e have infrastructure in

Biden’s DOJ is vowing to sue Texas if state officials begin carrying out a new set of laws that allows them to have illegal aliens deported.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt said Thursday on “Inside Politics” that Governors from red States bussing  migrants to northern sanctuary cities “has worked from a political perspective.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said Wednesday “CNN This Morning” that the current migrant influx into his city was “not sustainable” without “significant federal support.”

Several busloads of illegal border crossers were dropped off in suburban Chicago towns Friday after the Windy City hastily passed new rules putting heavy restrictions on buses looking to drop off passengers.

Texas is flying illegals into Chicago’s airports as Mayor Brandon Johnson limits buses of illegals from entering the “sanctuary city.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott stepped up the process of moving migrants out of the state to sanctuary cities by starting migrant flights to Chicago. The escalation follows actions by the Chicago mayor to interfere with migrant buses sent from the Lone Star State.

Sports commentator Stephen A Smith went nuclear on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday, calling the Gov. a “racist” for his “inhumane.”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went on a tirade, blaming the state of Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott for Joe Biden’s disastrous border crisis.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill making Texas the first state in the union to give law enforcement officers the authority to arrest migrants who illegally enter the state. The measure, SB 4, was signed into law on Monday during a ceremony at the base of the border wall in Brownsville, Texas.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) discussed negotiations between Republicans in Congress and the Biden administration over border policy changes and stated that the two policies that Republicans should demand and

The Chicago City Council has passed stringent new rules on bus companies in a desperate attempt to scare them away from dropping off illegal aliens.

The floating border buoy installed by the State of Texas in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass must be removed, according to a ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. The 2-1 ruling by the court affirmed the Biden administration’s Department of Justice argument that the buoys pose a threat to public safety and block navigation in the Rio Grande.

A federal judge in the Western District of Texas reversed her Temporary Restraining Order that stopped the Department of Homeland Security from cutting border barriers put in place by the State of Texas. The new order issued Wednesday night reverses that position after the judge heard additional evidence. The case will now proceed to a trial on the merits.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) made headlines Monday after skydiving with a 106-year-old veteran. 

Texas Governor Greg Abbott endorsed former President Donald Trump in his race to become the Republican nominee for President of the United States.