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The Department of Justice has announced it is suing Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, for using floating barriers in the Rio Grande river to stop migrants who are breaking U.S. law by illegally crossing the southern border.
For this the word “irony” was created. Defined, it means “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”
Abbott is doing the job the Biden administration refuses to do, and that is to enforce laws against unlawful border crossings that have been enacted by Republican and Democratic administrations.
Abbott’s response to the lawsuit was a terse: “I’ll see you in court, Mr. President.”
There are 29 established ports of entry along the Texas border. Any migrant with a credible asylum claim can be legally processed at any one of them. In total, there are 110 Border Patrol checkpoints along the border, a border which the United Nations declared last year is the “deadliest land crossing in the world.”
Laughably, the Department of Justice claims in its lawsuit filing that Abbott had ordered the “unlawful construction of a floating barrier in the Rio Grande River” and says the barrier might impede the federal government’s “official duties.”
One might reasonably believe that the most important of the government’s “official duties” would be to enforce the law, if only to deter the importation of the deadly drug fentanyl. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there were “106,699 drug-involved overdose deaths reported in the U.S. in 2021. … Synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) were the main driver of drug overdose deaths with a nearly 7.5-fold increase from 2015 to 2021.” --->READ MORE HERE
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The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in its case against Texas, seeking the removal of the buoy barrier the state placed in the Rio Grande and for any new construction to be blocked.
According to CNN, the department is asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for removal within 10 days of the requested order.
The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over the barrier.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge in Austin to force Texas to remove a 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.
According to CNN, in order for the injunction to be granted, attorneys will need to convince the court that the lawsuit is likely to succeed on its merits. The motion argues that the floating barrier interferes “with the federal government’s ability to carry out its operations on the Rio Grande." --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories
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