Texas Governor Greg Abbott is refusing to back down after the Biden Administration’s threats to take the Lone Start State Gov to court over his floating barrier in the Rio Grande at the southern border.
The White House says Abbott’s actions are “dangerous.”
“What you see the governor doing is dangerous and unlawful, and it’s actually hurting the process,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed on Monday. “It’s hurting the process of what we’re trying to do … Instead of coming to the table and trying to figure out a way to work together, he continues to do this really cruel, unjust, inhumane ways of moving forward.”
“There’s no good-faith effort here in what Governor Abbott is doing. And the only person — the one person that is sowing chaos is Governor Abbott. That’s what he continues to do: political stunts in an inhumane way.”
Abbott responded to the lawsuit and the White House’s remarks during a Monday interview with Bret Baier.
“It is in the public interest for the state of Texas to be safeguarding and securing our border from people entering the United States illegally,” he said. “For another, we believe that statute does not apply in any way because what state of Texas is doing through those buoys is not in violation of this statute.”
Abbott said that Texas will litigate the case “initially in federal district court in the state of Texas.”
“If we lose there, we will be going to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and eventually all the way to the United States Supreme Court, because Texas is defending its sovereignty and its constitutional right to secure the border of our state in our country,” he added.
Watch the clip below:
Texas will see the Biden Administration in court to aggressively defend our sovereign authority to secure the border.
Biden's open border policies created this humanitarian disaster.
Texas will continue to exercise our constitutional right to respond. pic.twitter.com/699k8xR7vn
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 24, 2023
[h/t The Daily Wire]
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