An administration official pointed out that President Biden’s new border policy has led to the lowest levels of unlawful border crossings in over two years. So it won’t come as a surprise that Abbott claimed the lifting of the Title 42 would “cause a catastrophic disaster in the United States.”īut that didn’t happen. The officer “suggests that Texas has set ‘traps’ of razor wire-wrapped barrels in parts of the river with high water and low visibility” which has “increased the risk of drownings by forcing migrants into deeper stretches of the river.” This is a point we covered extensively on Substack: Republicans have dumped the border in President Biden’s lap, including refusing to fund the border patrol requests of the administration, which is really odd behavior from folks who think the problem is so big that it justifies killing children.Ībbott’s shockingly inhumane border policies were detailed in an email sent by a trooper to his superior, in which he wrote: “I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane” after being ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande. “If Governor Abbott truly wanted to drive toward real solutions, he’d be asking his Republican colleagues in Congress why they voted against President Biden’s request to increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security and why they’re blocking the comprehensive immigration reform and border security measures that would finally fix our broken immigration system,” Hasan added. President Biden’s plan was criticized in advance ( including by me) in anticipation of extra chaos as he dealt with Title 42 expiring, which was a pandemic rule that allowed U.S. “Governor Abbott’s dangerous and unlawful actions are undermining that effective plan, making it hard for the men and women of Border Patrol to do their jobs of securing the border, and putting migrants and border agents in danger.”
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