Biden’s DOJ SUES Texas over order restricting migrant transportation
Gov. Abbott claims ‘constitutional crisis’
(RT-USA News)
Attorney General Merrick Garland has sued Texas, seeking to block and annul an executive order by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that outlawed the transportation of migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally.
Abbott’s executive order GA-37, issued on Wednesday, violates the federal supremacy clause of the US Constitution and “causes injury to the US and to individuals whom the US is charged to protect, jeopardizing the health and safety of noncitizens in federal custody, risking the safety of federal law enforcement officers and their families, and exacerbating the spread of [Covid-19] in our communities,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in the Western District of Texas in El Paso.
DOJ is also seeking a preliminary injunction.
“In our constitutional system, a State has no right to regulate the federal government’s operations. But the executive order seeks to do just that.” pic.twitter.com/gvy9OM2Yea
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 30, 2021
The order “obstructs the Federal Government’s arrangements with nongovernmental partners and directly interferes with the administration of federal immigration law,” the lawsuit added. The DOJ seeks to have the order declared unconstitutional and blocked from being implemented.
The order would have given Texas state troopers the authority to pull over any civilian vehicle suspected of transporting migrants who could potentially be infected with the virus. The troopers would have also been able to either seize the vehicles or escort them to the point of original entry.
Responding to the lawsuit, Abbott fired back, accusing the Biden administration of creating “a constitutional crisis between the federal government and the State of Texas” by its “refusal to enforce immigration laws [thereby allowing] illegal immigrants with [Covid]-19 to enter our country.”
President Joe Biden has “long since abdicated” his authority and responsibility “to protect and uphold our nation’s sovereignty,” and, instead, “knowingly imports” infected immigrants across the border, Abbott added.
The Biden admin. fundamentally misunderstands what’s happening at the border.
They are jeopardizing the health & safety of Texans on a daily basis by refusing to follow the law.
I will take every step consistent with the law to fulfill my duty to protect all Texans. pic.twitter.com/CHn4aN17iD
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 30, 2021
Arguing that he had a duty and a responsibility to protect Texans, and the authority under emergency laws used to deal with the pandemic, Abbott vowed to continue doing so “until President Biden and his administration do their jobs to enforce the laws of our nation and protect Americans.”
“Not on my watch! Texas will not back down,” added the state attorney general Ken Paxton, vowing to fight the DOJ in court.
Breaking: Biden DOJ sues Texas for protecting it’s citizens. Texans will be protected on my watch! #Biden #DOJ #COVID19 #BREAKING https://t.co/kwIxRwajbj
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) July 30, 2021
More than a million migrants have poured across the US-Mexico border since January, when Biden took office and swiftly reversed most of his predecessor Donald Trump’s immigration policies, calling them cruel and inhumane. Though the Biden administration has officially urged asylum seekers from Central America not to come, it has also relaxed asylum rules, given more leeway to prosecutors not to press charges, and allowed migrants previously waiting in Mexico to cross into the US.
Tens of thousands have also been released inside the US without being given court dates, told only to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in the towns and cities where they decide to settle. Thousands have been put on buses or flown across the country. Biden has also endorsed offering citizenship to several categories of migrants currently in the US who would not normally be eligible for it, as part of the upcoming budget bill.
Texas and, to a lesser extent, Arizona, both of which have Republican governors, have protested the federal government’s policies and deployed additional police and even National Guard troops to the border to help with the ongoing emergency.
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Header featured image (edited) credit: Migrants arrive in El Paso, Texas on a chartered flight from Brownsville, March 17, 2021. © REUTERS/Paul Ratje/File Photo
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Why hasn’t Biden been charged with abdicating his responsibility to protect and uphold our nation’s sovereignty and for failing to uphold our immigration laws? He is also the main culprit responsible for spreading Covid throughout the country by aiding and abetting illegals to enter untested and unvaccinated. He is an unstable fool who is intentionally trying to ruin America in order to usher in the Communist ideals of his Marxist party. He needs to be prosecuted before his evil agenda can succeed.