Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the Biden administration of “aiding and abetting cartels” with the open southern border, which the Lone Star state is trying to secure from illegal immigration.
Paxton’s statement against the current administration comes after the United States Department of Justice threatened to sue the state of Texas if, by Jan. 3, 2024, it does not assure it will not enforce a law allowing state officials to arrest people they suspect are in the country illegally, which the attorney general said was “hard to believe.” Paxton stated that Texas is doing the Biden administration’s job in securing the border yet could possibly face legal pushback.
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“And instead, we’ve got the Biden administration, as I said, aiding and abetting the cartels, encouraging the cartels to make billions of dollars and to bring as many people here as fast as possible and as soon as possible,” Paxton said in an appearance on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “That’s what the Biden administration is doing. They’re not just not doing their job; they’re actually encouraging the opposite.”
The attorney general also discussed recent complaints made by mayors of major cities in the United States, including Chicago and New York City, who have accused Texas of busing migrants to these cities. Paxton claimed that it is “a little ironic” that these cities are only getting a fraction of the “hundreds of thousands” of migrants that border states are getting.
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The threat of a lawsuit was reported after Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton wrote a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) notifying the Texas governor that the U.S. “will pursue all appropriate legal remedies to ensure that Texas does not interfere with the functions of the federal government,” should Texas proceed with enforcing its law allowing state officials to arrest suspected illegals.
The law, which was signed by Abbott earlier this month, is set to go into effect in March and outlines that those found to be in the U.S. illegally may be given the choice to leave the country or accept misdemeanor charges. The law is part of Abbott’s latest advancement of Operation Lone Star, which he began in 2021 to combat illegal immigration flowing into and through Texas.
