{"id":22479,"date":"2015-02-23T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22479"},"modified":"2015-02-23T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:36:07","slug":"gov-abbott-20000-crossed-texas-border-since-january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22479\/gov-abbott-20000-crossed-texas-border-since-january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott: 20,000 Crossed Texas Border Since January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the surge of illegal immigration across the southern border isn\u2019t getting any better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized. And so we have an ongoing problem on the border that Congress must step up and solve,\u201d Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said while appearing on CBS\u2019s \u2018Face the Nation\u2019 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said that to stem the tide he is posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/susan-jones\/texas-governor-jan-1-we-have-had-more-20000-people-come-across-border \" target=\"_blank\">an additional 500 Texas Rangers<\/a> near the border. The cost for the expanded presence will come from the state\u2019s budget, even though responsibility for securing the border belongs to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott was on the show to discuss the Texas-led lawsuit he initiated challenging President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty program because it <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22442\/obama%E2%80%99s-amnesty-program-halted-for-failure-to-follow-the-rules\/ \" target=\"_blank\">failed to follow federal law<\/a> granting the public a notice and comment period before being implemented. Last week a federal district judge agreed with the challengers and granted a temporary injunction to halt Obama\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a month into office, Abbott is proving himself to be a conservative leader who knows how to get results in the courtroom and the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the surge of illegal immigration across the southern border isn\u2019t getting any better. \u201cAlready this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized. And so we have an ongoing problem on the border that Congress must step up and solve,\u201d Texas Governor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,4618,981,2594,561],"class_list":["post-22479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-greg-abbott","tag-immigration","tag-rule-of-law","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22479"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22487,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22479\/revisions\/22487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}