Federal district court Judge Robert Pitman recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by 15 male illegal aliens who asserted that Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star infringed on their 4th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights as outlined by the United States Constitution.
The case in question is Barcenas v. McCraw, No. 1:22-cv-00397 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
For context, Operation Lone Star was rolled out in March 2021 to grant the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) the power to cooperate with the Texas National Guard to more effectively fight Mexican drug cartels in addition to the illegal aliens and drugs they smuggle across the southern border into Texas.
Per Pitman, the illegal aliens failed to mentioned which constitutional freedoms Operation Lone Star transgressed on :
“Because Plaintiffs’ requests for declaratory judgment are moot and because they fail to sufficiently plead that Defendants have violated their constitutional rights, the Court finds that it must dismiss this case. While Plaintiffs’ Revised Third Amended Complaint certainly provided the Court with concerning statistics regarding the rollout of Operation Lone Star, Plaintiffs have not provided the Court with facts regarding how the individual or supervisory powers and actions of Defendants have deprived Plaintiffs of their constitutional rights.”
The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) came to Abbott’s defense in the case by filing an amicus brief arguing that the illegal aliens’ detention under Operation Lone Star was not unconstitutional in nature.
“This case richly deserved to be dismissed,” IRLI Executive Director Dale Wilcox declared. “The Biden administration’s abdication of its statutory duty to secure the border has created a rash of property crimes in Texas, which Texas has every right to address by enforcing its state laws.”
“If the plaintiffs were right in their claims, not only would illegal aliens have free rein to enter and remain in Texas and the U.S., but free rein to commit crimes without consequence,” Wilcox continued. “We are pleased the court saw the legal baselessness of this suit and dismissed it.”
Texas’ program is a natural response to the federal government’s dereliction on immigration matters. In such a dysfunctional iteration of the US, abiding by constitutional norms is simply asking for being dominated by hostile actors who couldn’t care less about constitutional freedoms.
In turn, red states will need to pick up the slack by building their own immigration enforcement apparatus and start deporting illegal alien invaders.
Those are stakes in the Clown World polity that is contemporary USA. And those who don’t grasp this are just asking to be dominated.