Gov. Greg Abbott is testing state powers to enforce federal immigration laws, citing a surge of migrants at the Texas-Mexico border. Rather than wait for...
soldiers still would hold in state detention centers, if possible, some of the people who they suspect are in the country illegally.
Also, DPS spokeswoman Ericka Miller, responding to an email asking how the agency was carrying out Abbott’s order and whether state police would use force if migrants refuse to accompany them to ports of entry, said late Thursday: “Texas is stepping up trying to compel the Biden administration to actually follow the laws passed by the U.S. Congress,” Abbott told host. “And we will continue to press that cause because it is essential for American sovereignty, for Texas’ safety and for the United States of America for people to be able to come to the United States legally, but not illegally.”
“Governor Abbott’s record on immigration doesn’t give us confidence in what he has cooked up now,” the Biden official said. “His so-called Operation Lone Star put national guardsmen and law enforcement in dangerous situations and resulted in a logistical nightmare needing Federal rescue, and his secondary inspections of trucks crossing into Texas cost a billion dollars a week in trade at one bridge alone without turning up a single case of human or drug trafficking.
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