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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Abbott’s announcements come as thousands of migrants — mostly from Haiti   
   — have   
   gathered under an international bridge in Del Rio.   
      
   by Uriel J. García and Jolie McCullough Sept. 16, 2021 Updated: 6 PM Central   
      
   Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday that he directed state troopers and the Texas   
   National Guard “to shut down six points of entry along the southern   
   border” at   
   the request of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — then reversed himself   
   shortly after, blaming the Biden administration for flip-flopping in its   
   request   
   for state help.   
      
   But a CBP spokesperson said the federal government — which operates ports of   
   entry at the U.S.-Mexico border — had no plans to shut down any ports of   
   entry.   
      
   “I have directed the Department of Public Safety and the Texas National   
   Guard to   
   surge personnel and vehicles to shut down six points of entry along the   
   southern   
   border to stop these [migrant] caravans from overrunning our state,” Abbott   
   said   
   in an emailed statement. “The border crisis is so dire that the U.S. Customs   
   and   
   Border Protection is requesting our help as their agents are overwhelmed by the   
   chaos.”   
      
   Renae Eze, Abbott’s spokesperson, added that the state “is shutting down   
   the   
   ports of entry at the request of and in collaboration with CBP.”   
      
   A few hours later, Abbott sent out a new statement saying that the Biden   
   administration “has now flip-flopped to a different strategy that abandons   
   border security and instead makes it easier for people to cross illegally and   
   for cartels to exploit the border ... I have directed the Texas Department of   
   Public Safety and the Texas National Guard to maintain their presence at and   
   around ports of entry to deter crossings."   
      
   Dennis Smith, the CBP spokesperson, said after Abbott’s initial directive   
   that   
   the agency had received no word from the federal government to shut down ports   
   of entry.   
      
   https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/16/migrants-haitians-del-rio-bridge-texas/   
      
   No, CPB did *not* request Texas's help in shutting down the border, because CPB   
   never had any intention of shutting it down.  Abbott lied after running his   
   mouth.   
      
   I have no idea how so many Haitians got to Mexico.  The fact that they did has   
   nothing to do with Joe Biden.   
      
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