READ IT: The Letter That Greg Abbott Handed To Biden During Visit To U.S. Border

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) hand delivered a letter to President Joe Biden on Sunday during the president’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late,” the letter began. “Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies.”

“Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis,” the letter continued. “This chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted.”

Abbott noted in the letter how the U.S. border was significantly safer under the previous U.S. administration and that the illegal immigration crisis has exploded to the worst in the history of the country under Biden.

“Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,” the letter said. “Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.”

Abbott told the president that the crisis was caused because Biden violated his constitutional obligation “to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws.”

Abbott advised Biden that when he finished “the photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso,” that he needed to:

You must comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens “shall” be detained, and end the practice of unlawfully paroling aliens en masse. You must stop sandbagging the implementation of the Remain-in-Mexico policy and Title 42 expulsions, and fully enforce those measures as the federal courts have ordered you to do. You must aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry, and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with existing federal laws. You must immediately resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose. You must designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

Related: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Blasts Biden’s Border Visit

College Soccer Player Says She Was Benched For Refusing To Kneel For BLM — Now She’s Getting Paid

Former Virginia Tech soccer player Kiersten Hening received a six-figure settlement for dropping a federal lawsuit against the coach she claimed had benched her for refusing to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.

According to a report from The Roanoke Times, Hening accepted a settlement of $100,000 to walk away from the suit — and her attorney, Cameron Norris, also confirmed that the settlement did not require either party to admit to any wrongdoing.

Hening was a starter on the team during her freshman and sophomore seasons — but she claimed that she was benched after she chose not to take a knee during a pregame unity ceremony that was planned to show support for Black Lives Matter shortly after the death of George Floyd.

She blamed Charles “Chugger” Adair, the women’s head soccer coach, saying that he had scolded her during halftime at that game. She said that he then limited her field time and claimed in the lawsuit that she had been punished for simply exercising her First Amendment rights. She ultimately quit the team two games later, saying that the coach had engaged in a “campaign of abuse and retaliation” against her.

The suit, which was filed in March of 2021, asked that Hening be reinstated to the team and that she be given an undisclosed amount in damages. However, Hening graduated in the time that lapsed since the suit was initially filed — and she does not intend to return in order to finish out her eligibility.

She also noted in the suit that she supported social justice initiatives, but that she did not support Black Lives Matter as an organization over concerns about its “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.”

Adair, who is still the head women’s soccer coach at Virginia Tech, released a statement following the settlement, claiming that he had been vindicated and adding, “I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrong doing … It’s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed.”

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— CoachChugger (@CoachChugger) January 4, 2023

The settlement is not final until state officials and officials at Virginia Tech have reviewed and approved it.