Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defends use of floating barriers to stop flow of migrants crossing the Rio Grande.
Officials from numerous state agencies were informed over at least seven months that Texas needed federal permission before intruding on federal land or installing barriers in or along the river.through an open records request show that DPS and other Texas entities were put on notice about federal permit and floodplain impact study requirements at least as far back as Dec. 21, and many times since then.
Abbott has said that the Biden administration is trying to use an obscure law to push “open border” policies. Administration officials say they are not for open borders.“The Constitution gives the states the authority to secure our border when the federal government refuses to do so,” Abbott said Friday. “I will do whatever it takes to defend our state from the cartels that are invading our state and our country.
Abbott added that Biden, who has not spoken publicly about the disagreement, should be thankful that Texas is embracing border security. “When you think of all that Texas is doing at the border, you would think that Joe Biden would have sent me a thank-you note, one of those big oversized checks thanking the state of Texas for…doing his job to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Instead of doing that, Joe Biden sent me a lawsuit trying to get Texas to stop securing the border.”
Abbott and the Biden administration have frequently clashed on immigration issues. Last year, the governor began busing migrants to cities with Democratic Party leadership to bring attention to the migrant situation at the border.On Friday, he said the transporting of migrants to those cities would continue. “Until Joe Biden secures the border, we will continue to bus migrants to sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.,” he said.
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