On the same day the U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil complaint against Texas over a floating barrier of buoys strung together in the Rio Grande River, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Joe Biden saying that Texas has a right to defend its border.
The complaint seeks to stop construction of the barrier and to require Texas to remove it.
The Texas governor's formal letter sent Monday is a follow up to the notice he gave on Friday in response to the DOJ saying its civil action was coming.
Abbott's two-page letter copies Attorney General Merrick Garland and three Texas officials: the provisional attorney general and heads of the Texas Military Department and Department of Public Safety.
Abbott, a former Texas Supreme Court justice, wrote, "In accordance with Article I, 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, I have asserted Texas's"sovereign interest in protecting [her] borders," citing Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent in the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case, Arizona v. United States.
' "To state the obvious, that statute does not describe any action by the State of Texas." Texas began the Rio Grande initiative to prevent illegal entry on state land between ports of entry.
" The letter came as over 175,000 foreign nationals were reported illegally entering the southern border alone in June, including at least 70,200 in Texas and as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to claim the border is secure.
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