As Iowa prepares to waste millions in taxpayer dollars that were NOT earmarked for border control let’s take a little look at some of the shenanigans taking place on the Texas border. Maybe Iowa troopers can learn skills such as deployment of razor wire and pushing people into rivers. 3 minutes:
More than 100 Iowa National Guard soldiers will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas to support the state’s “Operation Lone Star,” the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
Federal American Rescue Plan funding will pay for the deployment, the governor’s office said. The troops will support “Operation Lone Star,” a joint operation with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2021 to counter illegal border crossings and the trafficking of illegal substances.
Reynolds first announced her plans to deploy troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in May, in response to the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure allowing the U.S. to turn away asylum-seekers at the southern border.
Once again our governor takes flight into her MAGA fantasy land where women are subservient to men, children gladly go to work at 13 after a fabulous day in religious schools and she and Greg Abbott stand at the border with Mexico battling bad hombres trying to overturn Truth, Justice and the American Way!
A couple more lines from the Capital Dispatch article:
Reynolds said since Biden took office, the country has “experienced a historic rise in illegal immigrants and illicit drugs entering our country.”
Not true there, Captain Kim. As a matter of fact, immigration has dramatically slowed since the end title 42 in May, There has been a slight increase since a judge in July threw some screws in the machinery, but most immigrants are trying to use the system so that once they get in they can stay.
The Guard troops will remain in Texas until Sept. 1, and DPS personnel until Oct. 2.
There is nothing for them to do here? As football season starts and school starts. Look. If we can do without them for a month, let’s see if we can do without them for a year or forever. Are they really needed here? They seem expendable.
What we really need to do is have congress look at our comprehensive immigration program which as far as I can tell hasn’t been updated since 1986. That is damn near 40 years. Why so long? Because as the once decent Republican Party morphed into the MAGA Party their desire to use immigration as an issue far outweighed their desire to do the right thing for the country.
In an article from 2013(!) the Washington Post gives a short synopsis of what has happened since that Reagan era policy. I will only post the opening paragraph as most of us have lived the this MAGA twisted tale.
* The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: The amnesty law of 1986 passed through Congress and was signed by President Ronald Reagan, but it is largely considered a failure. The legislation was meant to tighten border security and crack down on employers hiring undocumented immigrants, while offering amnesty to those already in the country illegally. Three million immigrants were legalized, but the law did not slow illegal immigration or create a framework to deal with it going forward. Since then, opponents of comprehensive reform have often cited the 1986 legislation as a reason to be wary.
We have all watched our immigration policies degenerate into solid proposals from Democrats being attacked and demonized by the far right who in turn have no policy suggestions other than to turn the US into an insular country surrounded by water and walls.
So, Governor, fly into your fantasies of saving the world and MAGA far right democracy while in reality Iowans are facing food insecurity as never before – boy we could really use that money to feed people ,- women are treated like second class citizens and humans who do not conform to your narrow view of humanity are treated like they are not human in your Iowa.
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