Ken Paxton calls for help crisis at the border
Ken Paxton calls for help crisis at the border.
Todd: Texas Operation Lone Star has resulted in more than 53 thousand migrant apprehensions and 3,400 arrests.
Jillian: The program has law firmed just this march to combat the smuggling of drugs across the border.
Ken Paxton joins us now to react. You look at those numbers. Is that a success to you? The federal Government is allowing people to stay or get transported around our state or other parts of the country.
Ken Paxton: We are doing what we can to protect our citizens and I applaud Governor Abbot for instituting this. It is having an impact, but we can’t solve the problem by ourselves.
Todd: For the Federal Part of all of this, have you heard anything from the Biden White House? Now that the long star numbers have been released. Ken Paxton: Nothing. And actually, haven’t heard anything from them since they announced day one that they were going to allow people to stay when they have been more about bringing people in than preventing people from coming.
Jillan: How much manpower is being put into thinking we are putting millions and millions of dollars into this? Ken Paxton: We have been doing this for over a year putting manpower on the border. To help the Federal Government. We have added manpower. There is literally thousands of people that are working from our state positions, law enforcement to help the Federal Government and do what we are doing now. Which is arrest people on our own.
Todd: A.G. Paxton, I ask you this every time we have you on. I’m going to ask you again. In light of the initial part of this segment, where you reference the number of people that you have apprehended, is the situation at the border getting better or is it getting worse?
Ken Paxton: I think the cartels are getting more and more strength. Their networks are getting better and better. The Biden Administration has opened the borders. So they are getting better at trafficking people, sex trafficking, human trafficking. They make money off of almost every single person come up. Then they are getting better at importing drugs and other illegal activities. So they are getting actually better at it so. So, NO the situation is not getting better.
Ken Paxton: We are not doing the things that worked in the Trump Administration to stop this.
Todd: Switching gears the runaway Texas Democrats are going to testify at the U.S. House hearing tomorrow. The hearing is titled democracy in Danger. The Assaulting Rights, Americans facing the most sweeping assault on the passage of the peoples voting rights in Texas is ground zero in this battle.
Ken Paxton: We are honored to have these Texas Lawmakers come to testify before our subcommittee about the struggle to defend basic democracy in their state.
Todd: So, after this hearing, once this publicity stunt is over, when do you actually have this vote on the bill?
Ken Paxton: Well, it’s going to happen, it’s just a matter of when they want to come back to Texas. I am assuming that someday they would like to come back to Texas. The reality is the irony of this is that they are the ones stopping the voting. They are the ones that are preventing the Democratic process from working. And sort of the guise of the protecting voting. The reality is the bill is actually expand voting in many different ways. It also tries to prevent fraud. There is a balance to the bill eventually they’re going to come back and we’re going to have a vote. Crisis at the Border.
Jullian: Okay, well, keep us updated on everything. Love to hear Attorney General Ken Paxton.
