Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) launched and quickly won his border battle with four Mexican state governors – and the D.C. establishment is pretending the victory never happened.
“The governor [of Tamaulipas]will provide enhanced border security enforcement measures on the Mexico side of the border, both in ports of entry as well as along the Rio Grande River to prevent illegal immigration from Mexico into Texas,” Abbott said Friday as he ended the trade-blocking safety inspections of Mexican trucks into Texas.
“If those crossings resumed — or increase — it will signal the cartel-supported crossings have increased and that Texas must reinstate the more stringent vehicle-inspection standard,” he said.
“We are showing how border governors can lead the way on solving border problems,” Abbott said after using the threat of trade blockades to forge deals with four Mexican state governors.
Hundreds of commercial trucks wait in line to cross the Progreso International bridge into Mexico on April 13, 2022, in Progreso, Texas. (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)
“It remains to be seen how successful this effort of his will be, but clearly it’s an initial success,” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It’s perplexing why there hasn’t been more real coverage of it … I’m not familiar with something of this scale happening before,” he added.
The Biden administration said little during Abbott’s border war, Krikorian noted.
The silence might have been caused by conflicted political staff in the White House hoping that someone or something would give them political cover to extend the popular Title 42 border barrier that is hated by the party’s pro-migration wing, he said. Border officials are letting many migrants through that Title 42 barrier now — roughly 80,000 of 220,000 in March, for example — and are scheduled to lift the barrier by May 23.
Mexico’s federal government also said little.
“It is rather astonishing that a Mexican Prez … (who says to care a great deal about sovereignty) allowed Abbott to bully up individual Mexican state governors (by choking the US/MX supply chain) & forcing them to implement security measures,” said in a Friday tweet by a D.C.-based Mexican journalist, José Díaz Briseño.
5/ The “deals” between Abbott & the Mexican border state Govs include policies already implemented. The only “new” one would br the directive for Chihuahua & Coahuila to respond to border hotspots identified by Texas DPS. Can this happen without first coordinating w/MX City & DC? pic.twitter.com/5HPtUy4pwc
— José Díaz Briseño (@diazbriseno) April 15, 2022
On Monday, Mexico’s president briefly commented on the deals won by Texas. “Legally they can do it, but it’s a very despicable way to act,” said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Abbott’s coup “has received surprisingly little mass media coverage for being a state governor directly interfering with international trade policy,” a pro-migration media site said on Friday. “It’s no secret to anyone that Abbott’s got broader political ambitions,” the Border/Lines site added.
The U.S. corporate-run media reported Abbott’s win as an Abbott defeat — and played up business claims of massive economic damage in the United States — despite four Mexican governors signing anti-migration deals in exchange for easier truck traffic into Texas.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Friday that there were no longer any secondary inspections of trucks crossing into his state from Mexico, announcing the end of a policy that had created multi-mile backlogs and that critics alleged had cost them millions of dollars in losses because key trade routes had ground to a halt,” the Washington Post reported April 15.
Down in the eighth paragraph, the Post‘s editors acknowledged:
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Abbott met with governors from a number of Mexican states that use Texas ports to import goods, hashing out deals that exchanged the cessation of his additional inspections for enhanced border security on the part of the Mexican government.
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border, after a week of intensifying backlash and fears of deepening economic losses,” the Associated Press reported on Friday.
The AP mentioned Abbott’s success in the fourth paragraph, saying he “fully lifted the inspections after reaching agreements with neighboring Mexican states that he says outline new commitments to border security. ”
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