Abbott sending 'quick-response teams' to border, wants more federal action as Title 42 ends

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Federal law prohibits using the U.S. military as a tool of law enforcement except for extraordinary circumstances such as quelling an insurrection.
46% : Abbott also said the imminent end to Title 42 -- which started as a World War II-era public health measure used to limit the spread of malaria and tuberculosis from other countries and resurrected in 2020 to as an effort to keep people carrying the COVID-19 virus from crossing the southern border -- will usher in a wave of activity more deadly than the pandemic-causing pathogen.
43% : When the Biden administration announced on May 2 that 1,500 federal troops would be dispatched to the border to coincide with the lifting of Title 42, supplementing the 2,500 already there, Abbott shrugged it off as insufficient because they would primarily be carrying out administrative duties to assist law enforcement authorities.
42% : But as early as mid-April Abbott said he was preparing for a new wave of unauthorized immigration when Title 42 ends.
29% : The statement also stepped up what have been the Republican governor's ongoing attacks on Biden's approach to border security.
25% : But since 2021, the governor has championed spending billions of dollars on border security to bolster what he has said is an insufficient response by the Biden administration.

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