Citys accountable. Were not going to let them thumb their nose at Immigration Law but all texas is trying to do is to be faithful to the law while Joe Biden is not enforcing the law. Shannon governor you know the Supreme Court when arizona considered this years ago did know the feds have supremacy when it comes immigration issues and i know theres going to back and forth maybe this ends up back there with the Supreme Court. But theyve been clear on that and the mean time of the board is sure your critical yesterday you said youre sick of republicans you see what theyre doing right now in washington with the senators during Border Agreement which is basically caving on everything to the democrats. We talked to the eight Negotiators Center at lankford and others about what is going on they do not have text that we do not have a contours of this. What is your criticism about what we do know about whats coming together and how in the world would you as president put together something to p
The great thing about this with me being president s not going to be an issue because i am going to empower states and localities to enforce federal Immigration Law. We have this crazy thing were somehow the federal government says it is their sole providence to enforce Immigration Law under the Supremacy Clause of the constitution. Yet they say states cannot enforce it and be faithful to the law because the federal government does not want to enforce a lot makes no sense we are going to have all Hands On Deck i have Worke Work at Border Sheriffs just as governor of florida in places like arizona and texas. Their communities are getting overrun for the state of texas. All states and localities will be empowered to enforce federal law that includes at the border but also includes the interior of our country but if you have criminal Aliens State and local need to be working with federal so we can deport the people. We need to work to make sure were deporting illegal aliens in particular
Reporter well, let me take you through this, poppy, because we have video of what the takeover looks like. This is shelby park, The Park that texas took custody of last week, and youll see that Theres Fencing and gates, and there are members of the Texas Military Department Determining who goes in and who goes out. This is an escalation, a new high when it comes to the feud between texas and the biden administration over border security. We have covered the legal battles, they are ongoing. The border buoys, the razor wire, they are down river from where im standing. Theres the immigration law, sb 4, it has turned tragic, deadly, a migrant mother and her two children died over the weekend. They drowned and dhs says that Border Patrol asked texas military Department Access during that Distress Call and that they were not provided access, and the texas military department says that that is completely inaccurate. And if your brain is spinning, youre not alone. Heres how you need to look at
Desperate to get here, unquote. Do you still feel that way . I saw them when i was at the united nations i saw them. That doesnt mean we should let them into our country. First of all, i will tell you that when i was governor of south carolina, we passed the toughest illegal Immigration Law in the country. Obama sued us over it and we won. We fought obama on illegal immigration. We fought obama on migrant kids. We fought obama on syrian refugees. We fought obama on Guantanamo Bay prisoners. I always said were a country of laws. The second we stop being a country of laws we give up everything this country was founded on. Butly tell you in passing that toughest illegal Immigration Law in the country, we passed everify i want to take national which is where businesses have to prove that the people they hire are in this country legally. I passed it within six months of being governor. Ron didnt pass it for five years. He only waited to pass it and when he decided to run for president. What