“At what point does the President step in and say, ‘enough of that, these are American soldiers. I am federalizing the National Guard.”
A White House correspondent on Friday pressed Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary, over why the President hasn’t stepped in and federalized the National Guard so he can stand them down and allow Border Patrol in, as Texas has blocked Border Patrol from coming in to cut razor wire in Eagle Pass, Texas.
"At a certain point, Texas guard — Texas National Guard soldiers and National Guard soldiers from other states are being used to frustrate federal authority. They are being used to get in the way of federal immigration enforcement and to flout a court order from a federal court," said the reporter, believed to be White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg of The Independent.
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View on X"At what point does the President step in and say, 'enough of that, these are American soldiers. I am federalizing the National Guard and ordering them to let the Border Patrol do their jobs because they took an oath to the Constitution, and I am their commander in chief.’ When does that — when does enough become enough?"
Jean-Pierre responded, "I'm not going to speculate on any actions the President could use. I'm just not, I'm just not going to do that."
She added that she was going to "reiterate" that "if these Republican governors actually cared about doing something to deal with the challenges at the border" they would "reach out to their representatives, their congressional representatives, you know, their Senators and Congress members in their state."
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin wrote that Feinberg should "explain how Texas is “flouting” a court order that determined nothing about what Texas can or cannot do?
It simply means the feds can remove wire - and TX can keep placing it - while the merits of the underlying case are being litigated in fed court."
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View on XOn Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Biden's Border Patrol agents are allowed to cut razor wire set up by Texas along the southern border to slow the flood of illegal immigrants that have crossed into the US under the Biden administration.
On Friday, a senior CBP official claimed that " Border Patrol has no plans to remove infrastructure (c-wire) placed by Texas along the border. Our posture remains the same."
25 states have expressed support of Texas in the crisis, as the state has been in a legal standoff with the Biden administration for several months over the border crisis.
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