Texas Disbands Immigration Intelligence Taskforce For Doing It's Job

The Daily Mail is reporting that the Texas National Guard has disbanded the intelligence wing of a taskforce set up to combat illegal immigration after the members were caught actually attempting to do their job. From the article:

    The Texas National Guard has reportedly disbanded its intelligence wing after members used a popular messaging app to spy on migrants, according to an investigation by Military Times and the Texas Tribune.

    A Texas Military Department investigation reportedly uncovered the misdeeds - and found at least four officers working on Gov. Abbott's taskforce infiltrated migrants' WhatsApp logs and shared their findings with federal agents.

    Wary Homeland Security officials, however, ultimately rejected their efforts, investigators reportedly found - on the basis that the two-year-old task force was not an intelligence agency. 

The members of the task force didn't follow the rules of Government Club. The first rule of Government Club is that you never, ever, work to fix the problem because, if there is no problem, there is no job.

    The article adds: "The alleged spying, if true, would violate laws that bar state-run agencies from collecting intelligence themselves, and could leave egg on the face of the mastermind behind the operation - the state's outspoken governor." I'm sure that the law was intended to protect citizens, not aliens planning on illegally crossing the border.