Texas vs. Biden -- state fights to enforce border, as White House...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Fed up with the feds, Abbott was given $5.1 billion for border security by his Republican state legislature and a quiver of six new border laws.
53% : Border Patrol usually hands them Notice to Appear papers with a future date at which they are to voluntarily report to an ICE office in their city of choice, then are freed on their own recognizance.
53% : "They'll keep walking and walking until there's an opening and eventually they'll find something and get across with Border Patrol," Texas DPS Lt. Christopher Olivares told me.
49% : State officials believe the Border Patrol, normally a close-quarters partner, is under orders from Washington to undermine the Texas measures by merely waving the agency's iconic green and white colors at locations where Texas isn't present.
47% : That is where owners Hugo and Magaly Urbina agreed to lease Border Patrol a chunk of riverfront land and place a large tented field facility where illegally crossing immigrants could conveniently be processed in and put on buses to a brick-and-mortar processing center nearby.
46% : On at least one occasion, a Border Patrol cut a Texas wire line to let some immigrants in.
46% : Sometimes parents will shove a baby or their children under the wire so that state police will have no choice but then let the family in to reunite with them under Border Patrol custody.
46% : The Urbinas dug a walkway ramp dug down to the river, and immigrants naturally beelined through the gap into the welcoming arms of Border Patrol, much to the chagrin of Texas officials.
43% : Other times, immigrants in family groups exploit another weakness: if they get in behind the wire, the Texans have no authority to do anything other than turn them over to Border Patrol for a quick release because the state won't jail families for trespassing.
42% : "Over there, Border Patrol will take you so we can try and get asylum because we're poor and we're wanting a better life."
41% : Another surefire way to defeat the Texans is to hike to the farthest reaches of the Texas line, then cross and unite with Border Patrol.

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