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Texas Defies Biden Admin’s Demand It Give Access to Border
Texas on Wednesday refused a demand from President Joe Biden's administration to give Border Patrol agents access to a section of the border the state blocked the federal government from accessing last week.
The letter of refusal from Texas's attorney general, Ken Paxton (R.), came in response to a demand from the Department of Homeland Security general counsel Jonathan Meyer that the Texas National Guard cease and desist its occupation of a 2.5-mile stretch of the southern border that includes Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, a highly trafficked area for crossings.
"Rather than addressing Texas’s urgent requests for protection, President Biden has authorized DHS to send a threatening letter through its lawyers," Paxton wrote. "But Texas has lawyers, too, and I will continue to stand up for this State’s constitutional powers of self-defense."
Meyer had argued in his Sunday letter that Texas violated the Constitution and impeded the federal government's ability to detect border crossings and apprehend migrants entering the country illegally.
"Texas’s actions are clearly unconstitutional and are actively disrupting the federal government’s operations," Meyer wrote. "We demand that Texas cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around the Shelby Park area and remove all barriers to access in the Shelby Park area." Meyer said that DHS would send the dispute to the Department of Justice and explore "all other options available" to regain access to the area if the state did not yield.
At the center of the disagreement was the Jan. 12 drowning of three migrants in the Rio Grande.
Upon hearing about a group of migrants attempting to cross the river, Meyer claimed, federal agents asked for access to the border. Texas refused the request, demonstrating "that even in the most exigent circumstances, it will not allow Border Patrol access to the border to conduct law enforcement and emergency response activities."
Paxton countered that the agents told the Texas National Guard that Mexican officials had already recovered the bodies of the migrants and "did not request entry based on any medical exigency."
The White House earlier this week said of the migrants' drowning that Texas "blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance," calling Gov. Greg Abbott's (R.) actions "cruel, inhumane, and dangerous."
In a later court filing, however, the administration attested that its agents, in requesting access to the area, told the guardsmen that the three migrants had already drowned and informed them that there were two remaining migrants in distress. Texas denied the agents access, and Mexican authorities later rescued the two remaining distressed migrants, who suffered hypothermia, according to Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar.
"It is impossible to say what might have happened if Border Patrol had had its former access to the area—including through its surveillance trucks that assisted in monitoring the area," Prelogar wrote.
The Texas Military Department, which oversees the Texas National Guard, had said Sunday that officers apprehended two migrants, one of whom suffered from hypothermia, after Border Patrol requested access to the area to secure "two additional migrants that were presumed to have traveled with the deceased, though had crossed to the boat ramp [in the seized area]."
"Claims of Border Patrol requesting access to save distressed migrants are inaccurate. Claims that [the Texas Military Department] prevented Border Patrol from saving the lives of drowning migrants are wholly inaccurate," it added.
This week's exchange between Meyer and Paxton is the latest in a dispute between the Biden and Abbott administrations over the border. Prelogar's filing last week that revealed Texas authorities' seizure of the area was part of a legal fight in the Supreme Court over federal agents' cutting razor wire on the border installed by Texas. The Biden administration is challenging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals's December ruling that it was not allowed to dismantle the wire.
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Trump: ‘We Have Wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen’ but Not on Southern Border
Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden for his handling of the Middle East and growing conflict in the region under his watch on Friday, as the former president prepares to run against him in 2024.
“So, let me get this straight. We’re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room,” Trump posted on Truth Social:
Remember, this is the same gang that ‘surrendered’ in Afghanistan, where no one was held accountable or FIRED. It was the most embarrassing ‘moment’ in the history of the United States. Now we have wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen, but no “war” on our Southern Border. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States!
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on January 1, stemming from complications from prostate cancer treatment, and has been in the hospital since.
After the Pentagon publicly revealed the hospitalization days later, on January 5, it has come to light that Biden did not know Austin was hospitalized until January 4, and did not know about Austin’s cancer diagnosis until last week. Austin was diagnosed in early December, according to the Pentagon.
WATCH — CNN’s Dr. Reiner: Austin Seems to Have Been “Unstable” and Administration’s Story Makes No Sense:
The Pentagon has not said when Austin might be released from the hospital and claimed his condition was “good.”
During Austin’s hospitalization, the U.S. military conducted strikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, in response to months of drone and missile attacks on U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Biden said he ordered the strikes, and the Pentagon said Austin was actively engaged in directing and monitoring them from the hospital. The Houthis have said they will retaliate.
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Trump: ‘We Have Wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen’ but Not on Southern Border
Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden for his handling of the Middle East and growing conflict in the region under his watch on Friday, as the former president prepares to run against him in 2024.
“So, let me get this straight. We’re dropping bombs all over the Middle East, AGAIN (where I defeated ISIS!), and our Secretary of Defence, who just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room,” Trump posted on Truth Social:
Remember, this is the same gang that ‘surrendered’ in Afghanistan, where no one was held accountable or FIRED. It was the most embarrassing ‘moment’ in the history of the United States. Now we have wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Yemen, but no “war” on our Southern Border. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Crooked Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States!
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on January 1, stemming from complications from prostate cancer treatment, and has been in the hospital since.
After the Pentagon publicly revealed the hospitalization days later, on January 5, it has come to light that Biden did not know Austin was hospitalized until January 4, and did not know about Austin’s cancer diagnosis until last week. Austin was diagnosed in early December, according to the Pentagon.
WATCH — CNN’s Dr. Reiner: Austin Seems to Have Been “Unstable” and Administration’s Story Makes No Sense:
The Pentagon has not said when Austin might be released from the hospital and claimed his condition was “good.”
During Austin’s hospitalization, the U.S. military conducted strikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, in response to months of drone and missile attacks on U.S. military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Biden said he ordered the strikes, and the Pentagon said Austin was actively engaged in directing and monitoring them from the hospital. The Houthis have said they will retaliate.
Follow Breitbart News’s Kristina Wong on ”X”, Truth Social, or on Facebook.
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