Texas AG Paxton Announces Final Victory On Court Order Forcing Biden to Finish Southern Border Wall
Biden’s administration had 60 days to appeal the final injunction issued in May, which it never did, securing the victory for Texas.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a court order for President Kamala Harris Joe Biden’s administration to finish the border wall.
Biden issued an executive order to stop the border wall and told DHS to find a way to redirect the $1.4 billion Congress allotted for the wall.
Paxton sued the administration “under the Administrative Procedure Act, arguing that Biden violated the Consolidated Appropriations Act.”
In May, Paxton received a final injunction from Judge Drew Tipton of the United States District Court Southern District of Texas McAllen Division.
Biden’s administration had 60 days to appeal, which it never did, securing the victory for Texas.
“For the reasons stated in this Court’s Memorandum Opinion and Order granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction in part, (Dkt. No. 128), the Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated success on the merits of their claims brought under the Administrative Procedure Act for violation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act,” Judge Drew Tipton wrote. “Accordingly, the Court concludes that entry of a permanent injunction is appropriate.”
The order told the administration it could not implement any plan to divert funds from their original purpose.
The funds must go to “construction of physical barriers, such as additional walls, fencing, buoys, etc.”
Paxton said: “This is a final victory against Biden’s attempt to defund the border wall. His Administration illegally sought to prevent the construction of the border wall and illegally attempted to repurpose the money allocated for American safety and sovereignty, working instead to keep the border open. I sued and won to stop their unlawful scheme. Now, the Administration has thrown in the towel by declining to appeal their defeat and will be legally required to build the wall.”
In 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott allocated $250 million to build its own wall.
Abbott even demanded Biden return all Texas land the government took for the government wall and give it back to the citizens.
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Well, a little late, I think they wanted to say the Biden, cough cough, Harris administration finish the wall Trump couldn’t do, myself.
Just exactly how good is this wall if 20 million have walked into America, mainly at the Texas border
Now I know San Diego has that honor, more welcoming
It is a little late and I’d like to see how anyone is going to force Biden to build anything
Too late, the commie c*nts have already flooded the zone with tens of millions of illegals who virtually all get federal election ballots mailed to them thanks to ‘motor voter’ laws. Couple that with ‘ballot harvesting’ and ‘election month’ BS and the Dims can probably overcome any ‘red wave’ for now until the next civil war begins. The blood-letting will be epic.
That is just not true.
Milhouse, You might be right, but perhaps you could be more specific about your disagreement and where your knowledge comes from.
“Motor voter” laws do not allow for the registration of aliens, let alone illegal ones. Now in too many cases that happens anyway, because people ignore the restriction or claim not to have understood it; the same thing happens in normal registration too. So some aliens, including some illegal ones, do register to vote and are never caught, and if caught usually get away with it because they claim they didn’t understand. But it’s ridiculous to claim that “virtually all” of them make this “mistake” and get away with it.
The idea that the border was opened with the intent of registering millions of new voters for this election is too ridiculous for words. If the intent was to register people illegally, and have them vote illegally, then why would they bother with actual people at all? It would be far easier to just invent people and register them, and have them send off for postal votes. That way all the ballots come to you, and you have control over the operation.
No, if there’s an electoral purpose to the open border, it’s long-term. The Democrats are gambling that these people’s future children, when they grow up and register to vote, will vote D. They also plan one day to give these people themselves a “path to citizenship”, which will allow them to register legally and loyally vote D since they’ll remember that the Rs tried to have them deported and are therefore their enemies.
The impact from this, if it succeeds, will not be seen for at least another 10-15 years, and realistically not for 25 years. And there’s no guarantee it will work out the Ds hope. But as far as this election it’s ridiculous. There is definitely some illegal voting happening, but not on that scale. It’s something Rs should investigate and take to court wherever they can, but keep a sense of proportion.
“if there’s an electoral purpose to the open border, it’s long-term”
Illegal aliens are included in the census, and are helped to determine how congressional seats are allocated. Since electoral college votes are determined by congressional and senate seats, states that encourage illegal aliens to live there are overrepresented in the electoral college.
“Now in too many cases that happens anyway, because people ignore the restriction or claim not to have understood it;”
Or — and these are the big ones —
#1. Partisan DMV hacks sign them up for it without even telling them. After all, all they have to do is make a check in a box, they don’t need the “registrant’s” participation at all.
#2. Someone who isn’t even the illegal fills out the forms in the illegal’s name (same way someone who is a campaign worker makes Democrat donations in a random but real citizen’s name).
Indeed, but that’s not at all the same as the allegation we’re discussing, that those people will be voting.
And if Republican states are worried about it they can simply encourage infiltrators to move there before the next census. It’s up to them to decide whether this is worth it.
At any rate even this will have no effect until the 2030 census. And remember that counting them is required by the constitution, so there’s no use complaining about it. Just try to get as many of them as possible deported before 2030. (Bonus: If on census day they’re in ICE camps awaiting deportation, they would count for the states where the camps are, which would presumably be near the border. Bonus for those states!)
Motor voter laws allow the registration of anyone that is willing to fill out the form and claim citizenship
What is the it? GoP States sending bounty hunters into blue States to forcibly deport illegal aliens? Seems like it would be worth it to me.
Sure it wouldn’t be legal. Neither is illegal immigration nor harboring them nor running a voter registration process so riddled with holes as to allow for registration of large numbers of folks with fraudulent or impermissible registration. Nor refusing to ‘maintain’ a clean voter registration list by searching for and removing names of those improperly registered.
This is the problem when we start with X party does Y illegal action then demanding everyone else find a lawful remedy while simultaneously erecting barriers to support such remedy or simply refusing to follow the current statutes. Eventually other folks become cynical, give up on reluctant bureaucracy and ignore those who cry for ‘lawful means’ but have refused to fix the problem. These folks decide to come up with equally creative and equally unlawful answers and fix the problem using means many may not be comfortable with. Not there quite yet but sooner or later the day will come when folks take action. We should all work in good faith to avoid that unpleasant end.
“Motor voter” laws do not allow for the registration of aliens, let alone illegal ones. Now in too many cases that happens anyway,
While you’re at it, are there any more Democrat lies you want to spread?
So we can get it over with, I mean.
‘Motor Voter’ the Democrat law that allows the ‘accidental’, ‘inadvertent’ registration of illegals.
“Motor voter” laws do not allow for the registration of aliens, let alone illegal ones.”
And immigration laws do not allow for randos to walk over the border and get free phones, documentation, and debit cards.
It’s all OK, folks! It’s NOT ALLOWED!
This makes no sense, and therefore is not happening. As I wrote above, if you want to create fictitious voter registrations, you use fictitious voters. There is no advantage to using people who exist but are ineligible to vote, and have no idea that their names are being used.
The only reason to use real people in such a scheme is if they are eligible to vote. Then it makes sense to register them without their knowledge, and vote in their names. If anyone ever checks the rolls, they will find nothing untoward, and if the person ever sends in a genuine registration it will just replace the fake one and they will never know that they were already registered.
It requires no proof, but it does require a sworn statement that the person is a citizen.
I don’t believe this claim. The writer presents no evidence for it, and I am calling him a liar. To get a driver’s license you need ID, which will generally also show citizenship, so there’s no need to “get inquisitive”. And the form explicitly says only citizens can register.
No, it would absolutely not. Asking about citizenship is required, and thus cannot be regarded as intimidation.
That is not true. The licenses they get are not usable for voter registration.
Yes, it is easy. But this has nothing to do with motor voter. The cat in question did not have a driver’s license! In fact this demonstrates my point above: if you want to put in fake registrations, you either use fictitious people, or real people who are eligible to vote. It makes no sense to use real people who are not eligible.
So does any voter registration! It’s got nothing to do with motor voter. And it does not lead to aliens (legal or illegal) being registered en masse. Some aliens do register, but there’s no reason to suppose that they do so in large numbers, and illegal ones are even less likely to register, since they’re trying to hide. It make no sense for there to be an organized Democrat effort to register aliens, especially to register them without their knowledge and vote in their names, therefore that is not happening.
Henrybowman, indeed immigration laws don’t allow illegal immigration. On the contrary, illegal immigration is illegal precisely because it violates those laws! So you can’t blame illegal immigration on those laws.
Likewise you can’t blame illegal voter registrations on the motor voter law.
And remember we are discussing the allegation that the motor voter law is somehow being used to register illegal aliens, in wholesale quantities, so they can all vote in the coming election. That is utterly divorced from any kind of reality. It is just not happening.
CommoChief,
I have no idea what this is referring to. Especially in such a long thread, please blockquote what you’re replying to. “What is the it” isn’t even English; perhaps there’s a word missing from that question?
And don’t tell me it’s fake, it’s exactly how the receipts are printed out
You can check the web site
https://x.com/BossBlunts1/status/1818898308468740161
What’s this got to do with anything?
And what evidence do you have that the person is even an alien, let alone illegal??
They are receiving voter registration info in some states, so you can’t really say it’s not true apart from having it “mailed” since they don’t have addresses. But go to DMV? No problem.
Everyone receives info. But they can’t legally register, and the motor voter law doesn’t help them register. Some are undoubtedly registering, but not in huge numbers, and they’re certainly not all registering.
In addition, Abbott also won his court battle against the left’s attempt to stop shipping illegals to sanctuary cities. Our “do-nothing” governor (according to certain know-nothings) has single-handedly brought the whole sanctuary movement to its knees.
The wins keep coming. The 5th Circuit just overturned a judge’s ruling against the proposed redistricting in Galveston County.
You realize the Biden* junta has no intentions whatsoever of obeying this decision?
It has no choice.
That’s not how dictatorships work, genius.
This is not (yet) a dictatorship. Genius.
The Biden Administration will use their 8 EV charging stations as the guidepost for how fast this should be done.
Yes, it will drag it out as long as it can. Little of the money will end up being spent. But it can’t just refuse to spend it, or try to divert it, as it has been until now.
Milhouse, you know better than to pretend democrats obey the law and suffer any consequences whatsoever if they don’t.
Yes, when they’re left with no other option, they do obey the law. They don’t openly defy it.
BS, Milhouse. Because the Executive controls the enforcement arm. Biden has openly defied the orders related to “debt forgiveness” for gov’t subsidized college loans multiple times, and has yet to suffer a single consequence for having done so.
You have an incredible belief in the ability of the law itself to change behavior. It’s a very progressive belief. Only actual enforcement gives the law any teeth.
No, he hasn’t. No matter how many times you repeat your assertion, it remains false.
And how many enforcers does the court have?
Enough.
Except of course that they can simply slow walk it. Then well if someone wants to raise an issue they’re just incompetent. Either way it doesn’t get done
Oh, insult to injury.
Kamala just announced that “she would be finishing Trump’s wall” after all.
She’s taking credit for it. it’s part of her “reinvention.”
No mention at all of having needed to have her arm twisted out of its socket.
Well, she wouldn’t be able to announce that she will be finishing Trump’s wall if Trump would have built the wall in the first place like he promised he would.
Yeah because he had the ability to make crap move faster through the glacially slow court system right? Oh that’s right, he didn’t. It wasn’t unfinished not because he didn’t try to do it but because they kept throwing every roadblock possible.
I’m thinking “good omen.”
how about proving citizenship at the voters booth and not allowing mail in ballots as a general method
Both good ideas, but not currently lawful. The next congress and the next administration should make that a priority.
What statute explicitly prohibits it? States can run their elections how they want for the most part. The Federal govt can piggyback on State run elections for Federal office but they gotta go along with State rules on a State by State basis. Alternatively the Feds can set up a separate nationwide election apparatus for Federal offices and run them how Congress directs.
Federal statute explicitly forbids it. States are required to accept the federal generic voter registration form, as well as the military form, neither of which require proof of citizenship. And they are required to provide voting by mail.
Both of these are things that the next Congress should fix.
Maybe so, but not on any strict timeframe, and the order conspicuously omits any standard by which it must be built. A flimsy barrier that couldn’t stop a five year old would, albeit maliciously, comply with it.