{"id":53654,"date":"2022-12-03T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53654"},"modified":"2022-12-03T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T01:41:17","slug":"immigration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53654","title":{"rendered":"Border security? Yes, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick laid out a mainstream agenda for the Legislature to consider when it convenes in January, and I want to endorse the tone of the items Patrick presented.<\/p>\n<p>Border security \u2014 along with property tax relief and strengthening the state\u2019s electrical grid \u2014 is a solid agenda item for the state to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>I want to offer an important caveat in backing Patrick\u2019s border security push. I do not want him to demagogue the issue \u2014 as he has done already \u2014 by declaring that President Biden favors an \u201copen border.\u201d Joe Biden does not favor an open border and his policies since taking office illustrate the point.<\/p>\n<p>The feds continue to detain immigrants every day. They send some of them back, they send others to holding areas for processing. Our southern border \u2014 and northern border, for that matter \u2014 is not an open border.<\/p>\n<p>Does the state have a role to play? Of course it does! Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending Department of Public Safety troopers to the Valley to lend aid and support to Border Patrol officers and local police. The state needs to buttress its high-tech surveillance as well to catch undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not concentrate on building walls along our border, which given the presence of the Rio Grande River along our state\u2019s entire southern border, presents the state with a nearly impossible goal of keeping all migrants from entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I want to encourage the newly re-elected lieutenant governor to take the high road when discussing border security.<\/p>\n<p>Demagoguery only makes your foes angry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick laid out a mainstream agenda for the Legislature to consider when it convenes in January, and I want to endorse the tone of the items Patrick presented. Border security \u2014 along with property tax relief and strengthening the state\u2019s electrical grid \u2014 is a solid agenda item for the state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Border security? Yes, but &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[709,1255,1447,2006,3959],"class_list":["post-53654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-border-security","tag-dan-patrick","tag-dps","tag-greg-abbott","tag-rio-grande-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53655,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53654\/revisions\/53655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}