Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott said the buoys and other barriers on the Rio Grande “have turned away and repelled tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people.'
and Gov. Greg Abbott over the buoy barrier the state placed in the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from crossing the river into the U.S.The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit against Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over the buoy barrier the state placed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass
Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Abbott said the buoys and other barriers “have turned away and repelled tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people" The Biden administration has said illegal border crossings have declined significantly since new immigration restrictions took effect in MayAbbott, appearing on Fox News’ “Special Report” with Bret Baier on Monday, said Texas will take the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if need be and that the floating barrier and other obstacles “have turned away and repelled tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people who try to enter into the United States illegally.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge in Austin to force Texas to remove the roughly 1,000-foot line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns. The suit claims that Texas unlawfully installed the barrier without permission between the border cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Mexico.“The fact of the matter is they’re using some obscure statute to try to stop us from continuing to deploy those buoys.
Texas will see the Biden Administration in court to aggressively defend our sovereign authority to secure the border.Texas will continue to exercise our constitutional right to respond.
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