A large immigrant activist group is asking President Biden to put an end to Republican governors efforts to send law enforcement personnel from their own states to combat illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border, calling it an “invasion” and “insurrection.”
In the last few weeks, governors in Arizona, Arkansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Idaho, Florida, and South Dakota have sent law enforcement personnel to the country’s southern border in retort to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request.
Abbot sent a letter to all fifty governors in the past month, requested states to send “all available law enforcement resources” to the border “in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
On Fourth of July, the League of United Latin American Citizens wrote a letter to the White House begging the president to use his authority to order an halt to all efforts, saying it is an illegal “pay for hire” scheme.
“We told the President in no uncertain terms, this is an insurrection by recalcitrant and rebellious states that must be stopped,” LULAC National President Domingo Garcia said in a news release. “This unilateral action by governors hijacks the Emergency Assistance Management Compact (EMAC) and involves our armed forces in a ‘pay for hire’ scheme, funded in part by private donations.”
Garcia went on to allege that Abbott and former President Donald Trump are “fomenting dangerous racial hatred targeting Latinos” in their visit to the border.
“LULAC cannot say strongly enough that this militia action must be dealt with before it spreads,” he added.
Rodolfo Rosales, Jr., the group’s state director for Texas, absurdly condemned the border security efforts as an invasion. That term, however, was not employed to describe the situation taking place at the border as large numbers of migrants continue to flood into the country in hopes of lenient treatment from the Biden administration.
“This is insane!” Rosales Jr. said. “We are being invaded by governors of the defeated confederacy to arm the border against brown women and children escaping political persecution, hunger, and death.”
“These governors are using the sacred chain of command to mobilize forces meant to defend us from military invasion by a foreign nation, as mercenaries to save white people from the brown threat,” he exclaimed.
In the letter, LULAC stated that the deployment of National Guard troops and other law enforcement is a breach of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, an agreement that permits one jurisdiction to send aid to another.
Republican governors, on the other hand, have said that their aid is needed due to the federal government’s failure to secure the border.
Just last week, Democrats released plans to bring border wall funding to zero even while spending $870 billion on border security measures in the Middle East.