Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday stood by his state’s efforts to control illegal immigration, blaming a Biden administration he says has left the southern border wide open, and promising to continue arresting illegal immigrants. Abbott addressed the Texas Public Policy Foundation after oral arguments had finished at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case challenging S.B.
Even without S.B. 4, Texas has the legal authority to arrest people coming across the razor wire barriers on our border, and we will continue to use our arrest authority and arrest people coming across the border illegally,' he said, adding that Texas’ Department of Public Safety has already arrested more than 40,000 for crossing illegally. The Biden administration sued over the law in January, which it said crossed into federal authority on matters related to immigration enforcement.
The Fifth Circuit of Appeals had blocked the law from going into effect. The Supreme Court on Tuesday evening, not ruling on the merits of the case, allowed the law to go into effect and kicked it back to the Fifth Circuit. Hours later, the Fifth Circuit again put the law on hold, ahead of oral arguments on the merits of the case on Wednesday. Abbott described it as 'like watching a tennis match' and noted that stay on the law from the Fifth Circuit was still in place.
We will continue to build those border barriers, keep the buoys in the water, build a Texas border wall, doing everything we can to protect the sovereignty of the state of Texas and the United States of America,' Abbott said.
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