Eagle Pass standoff: The Texas border town’s locals are tired of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Shelby Park takeover.
SlateThroughout January, a right-wing militant group based out of North Carolina called upon supporters to travel to a small Texas border town to “gather” and help “do the work of closing our borders.” “By Ballot, by choice,” the group’s website promised. Greg Abbott has been feuding with the Biden administration, pitting federal Border Patrol against Abbott’s Texas National Guard and state troopers in a conflict for control over the border. Eagle Pass’ 47-acre Shelby Park encompasses much of the city’s access to the river and serves as a natural staging area for immigration agents. The fight over Shelby Park escalated to the point that the Supreme Court, the Biden administration, almost every Republican governor in the country, and former President Donald Trump all weighed in to voice support for either Texas’ state sovereignty or the federal government’s constitutional right to border management. “What’s been happening has really shut me down.” For Fuentes, the real problems began not with the closure of Shelby Park but with the state’s interference in the Rio Grande itself.
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