National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Illegal Migrants

**Stretch** · 10-20-2021, 07:43 PM

In a Historic United States First, National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Illegal Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Todd Bensman on October 20, 2021

Texas DPS and National Guard troops working together on the border near Roma, Texas, July 2021. Photo by Todd Bensman for the Center for Immigration Studies.
AUSTIN, Texas — In a dive into new political and legal water, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has initiated the first-ever border security operations in which thousands of National Guard troops — newly imbued with civilian arrest authority and given 40 hours of traditional police training in the use of deadly force — have started handcuffing illegally entering migrants on state trespassing charges.

Small-scale soldier arrest operations began quietly this week as an unprecedented addition to the state’s ongoing “Operation Lone Star” in close physical coordination with a pre-existing border surge of some 1,000 Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers concentrated in Val Verde and Starr counties, but also expected to happen elsewhere. Abbott has been signaling for weeks that he was preparing a more aggressive use of the National Guard.

Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw confirmed to the Center for Immigration Studies that the first of some 3,000 policing-trained National Guard soldiers to be deployed over the next six weeks have begun filling gaps in the line, making arrests and turning their detainees over to DPS officers who will do the investigation and charging.

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**Guno צְבִי** · 10-20-2021, 07:51 PM

LOL immigration is under Fed jurisdiction not state

State laws addressing immigration are preempted by federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government has broad and exclusive power to regulate immigration, preempting state and local laws that also attempt to do so. In this context, state regulation of immigration means a state law or local ordinance that makes a determination of who should or should not be admitted into the country and the conditions under which a legal entrant may remain. State laws that tangentially affect immigration, such as employment licensing laws that can be revoked for violations of federal immigration laws, are expressly permissible.

**T. A. Gardner** · 10-20-2021, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by guno

LOL immigration is under Fed jurisdiction not state

State laws addressing immigration are preempted by federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government has broad and exclusive power to regulate immigration, preempting state and local laws that also attempt to do so. In this context, state regulation of immigration means a state law or local ordinance that makes a determination of who should or should not be admitted into the country and the conditions under which a legal entrant may remain. State laws that tangentially affect immigration, such as employment licensing laws that can be revoked for violations of federal immigration laws, are expressly permissible.

The state can arrest them for "trespassing." That isn't an immigration issue. Looks like Biden's getting it broke off in his ass again.