Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing radio host that there’s only one tool the state isn’t using to stop migrants from crossing the border into Texas: gun violence, because it would prompt a response from the pesky federal government.
“The only thing that we are not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border—because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week.
The president can absolutely arrest people
in a “citizens arrest”, sure. But he physically himself cannot perform police functions. If he orders an arrest and the arrest is illegal then that person would be acquitted.
What law says that?
Can you provide something that says he can? Let’s see it.
The US constitution? The President can do really anything they want within the law. There’s no really reason The President can’t arrest people.
Anyone can do whatever they want within the law……
You’re asking for evidence of something that doesn’t exist. If I’m wrong, point to the laws and rules that say I can’t tell you that.