Immigration
Search for TX National Guardsman underway after ‘mission-related incident’ trying to rescue migrants from river
Conflicting reports are emerging over a Texas National Guard soldier who went missing following a “mission-related incident” on the U.S.-Mexico border. Fox News reported the soldier had drowned while rescuing migrants in the river, and that a body had been recovered.
However, the Texas Military Department sent this statement directly to Sara Carter:
A Texas Army National Guard Soldier assigned to Operation Lone Star has gone missing along the river during a mission related incident, Friday April 22, 2022 in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Soldier has not been found. We are aware of reports of a fatality, although those reports are inaccurate. The Texas Military Department, Texas DPS and Border Patrol are working rapidly to find the Soldier. More details will be released as they become available.
National Review reports “There have been several recent reports of migrants struggling to cross the Rio Grande due to the strong currents and high winds. Two North Dakota Army National Guardsmen were recognized last week after they rescued a group of migrants attempting to swim across the Rio Grande.”
The reports come as Border Patrol agents have been overwhelmed with an influx of migration at the border, prompting many, including Democrats, to urge President Biden not to rescind Title 42 next month.
Title 42 was implemented as a safeguard against the novel coronavirus pandemic and has allowed border agents to immediately expel migrants who cross the border illegally. Without a proper plan in place, Republicans and an increasing number of Democrats say ending the measure will enhance the already overwhelming crisis of migrant crossings.
Immigration
BREAKING: Senate votes down both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in party-line vote
The Senate voted down two articles of impeachment Wednesday which alleged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas engaged in the “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed Mayorkas had breached public trust.
What resulted in a party-line vote, began with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., proposing a point of order declaring the first article unconstitutional, to which the majority of senators agreed following several failed motions by Republicans. The article was deemed unconstitutional by a vote of 51-48, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voting present.
Fox News reports:
Schumer’s point of order was proposed after his request for unanimous consent, which would have provided a set amount of time for debate among the senators, as well as votes on two GOP resolutions and a set amount of agreed upon points of order, was objected to by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.
Schmitt stated in his objection that the Senate should conduct a full trial into the impeachment articles against Mayorkas, rather than the debate and points of order suggested by Schumer’s unanimous consent request, which would be followed by a likely successful motion to dismiss the articles.
Republican senators took issue with Schumer’s point of order, as agreeing to it would effectively kill the first of the two articles. Several GOP lawmakers proposed motions, which took precedence over the point of order, to adjourn or table the point, among other things. But all GOP motions failed.
After another batch of motions to avoid voting on Schumer’s second point of order, which would deem the second article unconstitutional, the Senate agreed to it. The vote was along party lines 51-49, with Murkowski rejoining the Republicans.
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Rich
April 22, 2022 at 9:13 pm
Ms. Sara, please share this –> Joe says illegal immigration source of strength
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_sSxre-1nA
mach37
April 23, 2022 at 1:27 pm
This is one of the major differences between Conservatives and Liberals: why rescue people who are trying to invade our country, and then help them complete the illegal entry? Of course human life is valuable, but there IS a surplus of humanity nowadays: there is no need to save lives on the grounds that survival of the human species is at risk of being wiped out.
When people are trying to enter our country illegally it makes NO sense to help them enter, which is exactly what the Border Patrol is doing and violating federal law in the process.
If the invaders are saved from drowning, they should be returned to the side of the Rio Grande River that they belong on; NOT brought to the US, thereby assuming responsibility for their lives when the US should have zero responsibility for anything other than returning them to the country they tried to leave. That action should be part of the law against illegal entry into the USA. Tell your representatives in Congress to sponsor this amendment to the laws.
KAREN L MYERS
April 26, 2022 at 10:12 am
Hopefully, the border states will put up more barbed wire fences!
Biden has made our Country a dangerous place with all the bad
Migrants coming here!!