Gov. Abbott mocked for claiming South African immigrants crossing border illegally

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Source: kxan







by: Russell Falcon Updated: Nov 29, 2021 / 09:50 AM CST



AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is calling President Joe Biden’s policies at the border — to stop the flow of “illegal” South African migrants coming into the U.S. The statement comes after the U.S. restricted travel from several southern African countries on Saturday due to concerns of the recently emerged omicron COVID-19 variant.


In a tweet Sunday night, Abbott claimed: “Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa. Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally. Pure politics and hypocrisy.”

The statement was confusing to many, as it’s not clear if Abbott was referring to other U.S. borders or to the Texas-Mexico southern border, which is a frequent talking point of the governor.


Recent stopping of South African migrants at the Texas border hasn’t previously been noted.

It’s unclear whether Abbott was referring to a 2019 incident when Border Patrol in Del Rio, Texas, stopped over 500 African migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande. Those migrants, however, were not from any southern African countries, but from areas like the Republic of the Congo and Angola.

Read more: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/gov-abbott-mocked-for-claiming-south-african-immigrants-crossing-border-illegally/

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YUP--"Pure politics and hypocrisy." from Abbott's mouth.



@GregAbbott_TX
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Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.

Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.

Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally.

Pure politics and hypocrisy.

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. will you shut up and prove it or ill take my turkey feather and chase you

all over texas capital and tickle u.

[Marcuse]

2. Abbott's map is a bit out of date.

[agingdem]

3. great map!

South America is "humping" Africa...

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

5. Or brown nosing.

In which case South America would be Abbott (or any other GOPer) and Africa would be TFG.

[milestogo]

4. They are swimming in through the Gulf of Mexico, of course.

[rickyhall]

6. What about space aliens crossing into Texas? That's got to be a problem, too, Gov. Greggie?

[left-of-center2012]

7. I predict this will give Beto a huge boost in the polls

[Lonestarblue]

19. I doubt it. People who vote for Abbott aren't any smarter than he is.

They lump everyone who crosses the southern border as Mexicans or Africans because of skin color when clearly it is Central Americans and mostly Haitians at the border.

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. I wonder if Gregg ever surprises himself at the stupid shit that comes out of his mouth.

[COL Mustard]

9. Ooh! Ooh! I Got It!

He meant they were crossing the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe!!! That's where he wants to be governor...he could have some REAL power there!

[shelshaw]

10. Send Elon back!

What’s he doing in texas anyway?

[TNNurse]

11. Is Abbott really that stupid or

does he thing people in Texas are???

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I'm going to guess is really is that ignorant.

Many people never ever look at a map, and paid zero attention in any history or geography class. And are proud of that.

[OrangeJoe]

12. He knows he's lying

It always amazes me how folks on the left get so upset when Republicans lie. We seem to think that pointing out that what they just said is untrue or wrong will change the minds of their base. It won't and their leaders know it. They lie and talk bullshit because they know their base will believe it and spread it around. While we frantically point out that this is just not true they are already onto their next lie. Not sure what the solution is because as George Carlin used to say: "Know how stupid the average American is? Well half of them are even stupider."

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Under any other circumstances

all these clowns would have a mental health hold slapped on them by a cop or a Doctor.......WTF

[IronLionZion]

15. Are they flying to South America and then invading through a caravan?

I bet there's lots of them.

[catchnrelease]

16. Wow!

Between all of the caravans of people from Central America, the 30,000 armed Haitians and now South Africans, it's got to be like standing room only down at the Texas border!! There will be so many smuggling boats in the river you'll be able to just walk across from one side to the other!

[TexasBushwhacker]

17. The icing on the cake

"Pure politics and hypocrisy"

Project much Greg?

[Beacool]

18. Republicans have the dumbest politicians in the country.