Governor Greg Abbott told President Joe Biden in a letter Monday that Texas will not remove the floating border barrier in the Rio Grande. Now, the Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott told President Joe Biden in a letter Monday that Texas will not remove the floating border barrier in the Rio Grande.Abbott says the barrier is to stop migrants from entering Eagle Pass.
"The governor has couched it in terms of some old, not often invoked but valid constitution provisions about a state’s ability to protect itself. But at the end of the day, no matter how clever that argument may be, he is asking to do something about immigration," explained constitutional law attorney David Coale.
"He can go pile up more of them if he wants to right now. Sooner or later, I think a federal judge will say stop it, or take it out or come back to me with a plan," Coale said.
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