Photos: Battle grows over buoys, razor wire on US-Mexico border
Al JazeeraWrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. For more than two years, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the United States, pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the state’s 1,930km border with Mexico. A state trooper’s account of officers denying migrants water in temperatures of 37.7 Celsius and razor wire leaving asylum seekers bloodied has prompted renewed criticism. Abbott struck a defiant tone on Monday morning, blaming Biden for increased arrivals at the border and telling the president, “Texas will see you in court.” “To end the risk that migrants will be harmed crossing the border illegally, you must fully enforce the laws of the United States that prohibit illegal immigration between ports of entry,” the governor wrote in a letter to Biden. “What you see the governor doing is dangerous and unlawful and is actually hurting the process,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during her daily press briefing.
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