Joe Biden’s Texas Showdown

2024-03-31    

The law is only the latest example of Abbott’s dramatic role on the national scene. In March, 2021, vowing that Texas would “not be an accomplice to the open border policies” of the new Administration, he announced Operation Lone Star, an immigration crackdown that has cost Texas ten billion dollars and led to tens of thousands of arrests. The following spring, he started busing migrants to Democratic cities; since then, the arrival of more than a hundred thousand people has overwhelmed local officials in Chicago, New York, and Denver. He has also tried to install impassable buoys in the Rio Grande and laid razor wire on U.S. soil to entangle migrants, forcing Border Patrol agents to cut them loose. (Both policies are being litigated in federal court.) “He’s done a great job,” Trump recently told Sean Hannity, who asked if Abbott was on the shortlist to be his Vice-President. “Absolutely, he is,” Trump replied.

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