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The White House argued that Republican Governor Greg Abbott was causing “chaos and turmoil” at the border, and the state should confront immigrants.
White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre asked questions at a brief press conference before President Biden visited the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday.
Jean-Pierre was asked by reporters if there were any plans for a legal response to Abbott’s presidential order allowing the Biden administration to arrest illegal immigrants and return them to the border with state law enforcement officials and the Texas National Guard.
“Immigration law enforcement is a federal authority and the state must not interfere with it,” a White House spokesman said.
TEXAS GOV.Abbott approves law enforcement to bring illegal immigrants back to the border
“In particular, Texas Governor Abbott, who has a track record of causing turmoil and turmoil at the border,” claimed Jean-Pierre. “So I will introduce you [the Department of Justice] About legal issues. But again, immigration is a federal authority. “
Abbott signed an order on Thursday allowing Texas law enforcement agencies to return illegal immigrants arrested in the state to the US border. Just as the county urged him to declare the immigration crisis an “aggression.”
At Abbott’s order, Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Security (DPS) can arrest and return illegal immigrants who have crossed the port of entry to the southern border. Under the order, illegal immigrants are taken to the United States, but not to Mexico.
It comes at the time of the encounter of historic immigrants at the border. With more than 239,000 immigrants met in May alone, Abbott said he was worried about 5,000 immigrants in Texas alone on the Independence Day weekend alone.
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Abbott has taken a number of dramatic steps to combat the flood of immigrants that hit the state, including immigrant buses to Washington, DC. Illegal entry.
Adam Shaw from Fox News contributed to the report.