Lt. Gov Dan Patrick, R-Texas, on the state's response to the massive migrant crossing in El Paso and urges Americans to stop traveling to Mexico
"We filed a bill on Friday, Senate Bill 2424, to show those coming here illegally we mean business in Texas," Patrick said Monday."If you come here, and you have a conviction for a felony, you could face up to life in prison. This is a brand new crime. And if you cross illegally for any reason, up to a year in jail, the second time up to two years."
Patrick said he is not surprised Texas acted quickly to respond to the crossings, but added the dangerous situation shows what can happen as long as"Imagine had those thousand not stopped, you could have had bloodshed on the border," he said.
alan64366024 send them to the rockpile...
On whose dime?
Instead of Sending tax dollars to Ukraine lets just send the military aged men crossing the border to Ukraine. This will help win the War against Russia and alleviate the border crisis. We will had out many metals to the survivors and hero's upon victory. Slava Ukraniaisms
That’s great news!!
Good! Sad state of the country when individual states have to fight to secure their borders since Biden opened them for illegal entry by millions!
Just line the border with prisons. That would be a nice permanent wall
YES!!!
LGB!!
Good teach them a lesson these drugs have got to stop.
UnConstitutional.
So, the other 99% of the people legally seeking asylum are welcomed. Good to know.
Great idea, I am sure the Texas budget for housing prisoners can handle the increase. Assuming your numbers are correct.
Aliens don’t have constitutional rights, only citizens. Those are illegal trespassers who are cutting in line and disrespecting the legal method of immigration.
Cheaper just to bus them all to sanctuary cities...
The Republic of Texas doesn't threaten like our joke called chief who resides in D.C. The Republic of Texas: declares, promises, announces, writes into law, & etc.
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Who’s gonna pay for their incarceration? I know a lot of those jails are For Profit jails. So who’s gonna pay? It’s not gonna be Mexico and the other South American countries.
Filling up those for-profit prisons.
Threatens? Or WILL. All talk
Once again,,They're not MIGRANTS,,ILLEGAL INVADING ALIENS IS THE CORRECT TERM
Do IT!
If Texas means business, why is Patrick still awaiting trial?
This should be listed as entertainment. Isn’t that your defense in court?
wasn't bussing cheaper...
Let’s just give Texas back to Mexico! That will take care of that issue😂😂😂how about that😂😂😂
👍 good
'America's newsroom' sure does belong in quotes. 'America's bullshit factory' is more like it. Speaking of crime, look no farther than Texas's attorney general.
The problem is, there won't be enough prisons to hold them all in. They have to be thrown back away.
Could load them up in a pumpkin chunker and send them back. Might send a signal to others on that side of the border to go through the proper checkpoints...
Our border should be lined with armored vehicles coast to coast at the ready. Close the effin border.
What the hell is happening in Mexico that's worse that America's trans fad?
All talk.
Can Mexico do the same?
The problem is they can't immigration policy is set by the federal government not at the state
Amen
Don't just threaten, promise it and follow through. Threats mean nothing.
Good, hopefully they follow through and double down
Omgplease dodon’t back dowif they want to live in America with everything freeprison is the right place
Why would Texas waste more of our tax dollars on putting illegal criminals in Texas prison when we don’t have adequate prisons for our own American prisoners. Send them to Guantanamo.
Loooooove this GO TEXAS
Do it!!
Congrats. Do you want a medal now? A trophy? We don’t care. Go arrest some pole dancers.
Right on.
Says a man under investigation
I hope they mean “jail” as in the “ground.” Instead of “jail” on the taxpayer dollar.
I suggest loading them into a trebuchet and launching them back across the border. It's cheap, solves the problem of that person being here illegally and it's entertaining. That's a win-win-win situation.
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We don’t need threats, we need action. Now!
So either way we’re going to pay for it 🤣😂 didn’t think that through did you?
I hope so
Excellent! But why does Texas have to feed them for life?
About $23,000 per inmate. That’s just not feasible.
Do it
Bravo, bravo.
Good.
Just send them back, it’ll be a lot cheaper than housing and feeding them in jail
How yall feeling about another lawsuit? 🤔
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Just DO IT!
Sounds good
Come on Texas…
I could think of better ways to stop the illegal crossing, but a few might think it too much like a battlefront!
Texas wont even hold it’s own elected Attorney General accountable. Waste of a state.
Just ship them to the democrats homes.
😂 Does he stomp his little foot when he says “We mean business”
Nothing to see here. Scroll along
Do you own stock in Texas' private prisons?
Good luck trying to stop them. Where are they going to live? That’s a lot of people every day
both Nations must be ready to accept that ,illegal immigrants is a humanitarian crisis anywhere globally,convictions to victims will not solve the problem,let there be dialogue and political good will between governments,without blame game.
Texas loves threatening to do things they can't do
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