‘Take Our Border Back’ Convoy spanning two-thirds of the U.S. expects 700K participants
Truckers, van and RV owners, regular citizens have started a series of convoys on both coasts with plans to meet in Texas and Arizona to protest Biden's open border policy
The organizers of the Take Our Border Back convoy left Virginia Monday and stopped overnight in Florida where they rallied for more people to join their cause and organized to try and push the Biden administration into taking action on border issues. (Photo: Daniel Scrivener/Associated Press)
Most American are very concerned about the Southern border crisis. Polls leading up to the 2024 presidential election have consistently show it to be one of the top two issues on the minds of voters over the previous year.
Frustrated by the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce the law, Congressional Republicans and members of the public have loudly demanded he simply put Trump policies back in place — remain in Mexico, reinstate Title 42 covid restrictions and finish the wall.
Instead, Biden has insisted he needs “new authorization” to close the border. That’s a lie. He has the authority — the same Trump had and that he also used to end those policies —to reverse his bizarre actions of January 2021. It appears Biden intentionally opened the floodgates of illegal immigrants who mainly fall into two classifications: Single, able-bodied military aged men and single, able-bodied military aged men with criminal or mental health records.
The theories of why he would do such a thing are numerous. One is that the Democrats want these illegals to eventually be granted citizenship and therefore, the right to vote. The public claims of Leftist lawmakers are that the illegals are needed to “pick oranges and other fruit.” That is particularly laughable, as legally recognized migrant workers from Mexico has long been able to enter the U.S. at harvest season. There are more than enough of them to provide the labor required to pick the fruit.
In June 2023, the Supreme Court held that Texas and Louisiana did not have standing to bring a suit challenging his administration’s immigration enforcement guidelines in federal court.
The states argued that the Biden administration’s enforcement guidelines contravene two federal statutes, section 1226(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and INA section 1231(a)(2).
The first section provides that the “Attorney General shall take into custody” certain migrants when released from state or local custody, who:
Are inadmissible on specified criminal grounds;
Are deportable by reason of having committed a specified criminal offense; or
Are inadmissible on specified security and related grounds or deportable for terrorist activities.
The second section provides that the Attorney General shall detain migrants subject to a removal order during the removal period. It specifies that, “Under no circumstance during the removal period shall the Attorney General release an alien who” has been found inadmissible under specified criminal and related grounds or deportable for specified criminal offenses or on security and related grounds.
In his opinion for the majority, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh framed the dispute as an effort by Texas and Louisiana to obtain a court order that would require the Department of Homeland Security to “alter its arrest policy so that the Department arrests more non-citizens.”
“But,” Kavanaugh wrote, “the states have cited no precedent, history or tradition of federal courts entertaining lawsuits of this kind. In fact, the Supreme Court has held that “a plaintiff lacks standing to bring such a suit when he himself is neither prosecuted nor threatened with prosecution.”
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Samuel Alito excoriated the majority for inflating the power of the executive branch. In order to reach the decision that Texas and Louisiana do not have standing,
A chair sits empty next to a cooler and vehicle belonging to the National Guard inside an area fenced off by razor wire in Eagle Pass. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Kex Paxton are making the Rio Grande the latest clash between states’ rights and federal authority. They now want to ignore a ruling this week by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Jessica Phelps/San Antonio Express-News)
Alito wrote, the court “brushes aside major precedent that directly controls the standing question, refuses to apply our established test for standing, disregards factual findings made by the District Court after a trial, and holds that the only limit on the power of a President to disobey a law … is Congress’s power to employ the weapons of inter-branch warfare.”
We believe Alito is correct. But if SCOTUS refuses to uphold the rights of injured states to seek relief from a president’s actions that are at least immoral if not illegal, then who will?
Perhaps some 700,000 private American citizens can effect a border closure.
A group calling themselves Take Our Border Back (https://takeourborderback.com) has called for massive convoys to head to the border this Saturday, February 3. Initially they were hoping to organize 40,000 truckers — similar in size to the truckers’ protest two years ago in Canada that called for the end of vaccine mandates in Canada during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Then, Freedom Convoy's spokesperson Ben Dichter stated the group wanted to get rid of the vaccine mandates and the vaccine passports. The passport the major concern, and despite efforts by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s government to demonize them, they called attention to the ridiculous mask and vaccine mandates in effect at the time. Though the government arrested dozens of the truckers, the mandates quietly went away once the convoy there was forgotten.
Now, the organization in the U.S. is estimating over 700,000 people, not just truckers but other private citizens, will be involved. Organizers are insisting the participants remain peaceful, respect local laws and comport themselves in a mannerly fashion.
The convoy will stretch from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Eagle Pass, Texas. It will break into three parts on February 1, with some protesters driving to a place yet to be named in Arizona for a Saturday rally and another faction will form up in San Ysidro, California and drive to Arizona for the Saturday rally.
The convoy aims to "send a message" to local, state and federal officials to close the border and deport all illegal immigrants in its plan to "shed light" on open borders. The organizers are calling for immediate action to secure all U.S. borders “before irreversible serious consequences befall our nation," a press release dated January 12 said. "All are welcome to participate peacefully!"
The press release noted that along with shedding light on the "wide open" borders, their aim is to request lawmakers to "uphold" all U.S. Constitutional laws. The activists also hope to "slow and ultimately stop" drug and human trafficking "associated with open borders."
The press release said that the convoy reflects the "vibrant American spirit" that unites "We the People."
"We the People are resolute to stand to send a peaceful, lawful, and clear message to all city, state, and federal politicians and immigration enforcement officials who are enabling tens of thousands of illegal entrants, criminals and known terrorists from over 160 countries worldwide to cross daily into our country along our southern border!" the press release said.
This is the spirit of supporting constitutional law that is completely lacking in the Biden administration and, unfortunately, a large portion of Congress.
We have no real confidence this protest will awaken the docile, brainwashed Left from its slumber. But maybe it will give patriots the will and desire to close the border themselves.