To fill the vaccuum created by Joe Biden’s refusal to enforce federal immigration law, the state of Texas and its governor, Greg Abbott, created Operation Lone Star, which in various ways has sought to ease the burden of millions of illegal aliens coming into the state from Mexico.
The latest effort of the operation is Senate Bill 4, a bill passed by the state legislature and awaiting the governor’s signature, which he says will be forthcoming. Once the bill becomes law, it will make crossing into Texas from Mexico a state crime and allow the state to deport the offenders back to Mexico.
The Mexican federal government, which apparently thinks it controls the U.S. (and may be correct, as far as the Biden admin is concerned), has announced that it “categorically rejects” Senate Bill 4. Noting that it will cooperate with Washington in deportations (being fully aware that Washington will do essentially nothing) but is quick to lecture Texas that it has no standing, declaring in a press release that Mexico “rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to detain and return Mexican or foreign nationals to Mexican territory.” The press release continues:
Mexico . . . expresses its concern regarding the package of legislative measures that will affect the human rights of the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin residing in Texas, by fostering hostile environments that may lead to hate acts or crimes against migrant communities. In addition, the Government of Mexico reiterates its rejection of any measure that involves the involuntary return of migrants without respect for due process.
In other words, while Mexico has been in cahouts with the cartels and human smugglers in the crime of illegally introducing huge numbers of its citizens into Texas, instead of making amends for their crimes, they cite the need to “protect” the sheer number of Mexicans now living in Texas as justification for “rejecting” any Texas law they dislike.
At the close of the press release, they threaten the usual: lawsuits.
Through its network of consulates in Texas, the Foreign Ministry is ready to respond to any violation brought about by authorities in the state and will explore supporting strategic litigation to safeguard their human rights.
Texas and Mexico came to blows once before in the 1830s, resulting in Texas’s independence, something I’m sure most Texans wish it had back.
For more, see the Mexican government’s press release.