“If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws. By doing so, you can help me stop migrants from wagering their lives in the waters of the Rio Grande River,' Gov. Abbott wrote in a letter to President Biden.
“If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws,” Abbott wrote.“By doing so, you can help me stop migrants from wagering their lives in the waters of the Rio Grande River. You can also help me save Texans, and indeed all Americans, from deadly drugs like fentanyl, cartel violence, and the horrors of human trafficking.
While the buoy barrier and the razor wire placed in the Rio Grande have been the subjects of a great deal of controversy lately, the DOJ, in its letter to Abbott Thursday, cites a law that “prohibits the creation of any obstruction to the navigable capacity of waters of the United States, and further prohibits building any structure in such waters without authorization from the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
The Justice Department’s actions are separate from but come following a report culled from an email claiming Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were directed to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water. That email, from a Texas trooper-medic, also said that razor wire the state has placed in the barrier is severely injuring migrants.
Abbott, in his letter to Biden, reiterated that the buoy barrier was intended solely as a deterrent. He said that migrants have the option of accessing legal ports of entry. “While I share the humanitarian concerns noted in your lawyers’ letter, Mr. President, your finger points in the wrong direction. Neither of us wants to see another death in the Rio Grande River. Yet your open-border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives by crossing illegally through the water, instead of safely and legally at a port of entry. Nobody drowns on a bridge,” Abbott wrote.
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