Image: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem visits the U.S. border with Mexico on Monday, July 26, 2021, near McAllen, Texas. The Republican governor deployed roughly 50 National Guard troops to help with Texas’ push to arrest people crossing illegally and charge them with state crimes. Two days later, Texas Governor Greg Abbott followed suit and […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Fort Worth, July 15 – The State of Texas has sued President Joe Biden and the presidential administration to force the federal government to enforce public health immigration laws at the Texas-Mexico border. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Texas’ reply brief demanding that the Biden administration enforce those laws. A […]
Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough’s specially-called Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, appeared as little more than grandstanding, as Keough had no plan in place and the Court accomplished nothing. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, June 30 – What readily became apparent at the Montgomery County Commissioners Court’s “special session” on […]
Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough is in deep political trouble. The “special session” of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court, which he called on on immigration, reflects his desire to deflect attention away from his personal troubles and his complete failure to abide by the promises of reform he assured voters he would bring to […]
Image: Along the 1254 miles of border between Texas and Mexico, there is one ferry at Los Ebanos, Texas (at bottom of photograph), where it crosses to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas (at top of photograph). Along the Texas-Mexico border, there are two dames, one hand-draw ferry, and twenty-five (25) other […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin, June 16 – Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan will hold a joint press conference today at 3 o’clock p.m. in the Governor’s Public Reception Room in Austin to announce their intention to build a border wall along Texas’ […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking “green cards” to […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports McAllen, May 3 – The State of Texas has filed several lawsuits against President Joe Biden’s administration over the failure of the presidential administration to follow federal law regarding deportation of illegal aliens, enforce immigration laws, and follow proper United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protocols. “As the Biden […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin, March 31 – Governor Greg Abbott today sent a letter to Vice President — and newly named Border Czar — Kamala Harris demanding answers and swift action from the Biden Administration to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border. In the letter, the Governor also urges Vice President Harris to visit […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those that emerged Monday showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more […]