Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has expressed support for state Governor Greg Abbott’s order of transporting illegal immigrants to Washington D.C. In an interview with Fox, Paxton acknowledged that a 2012 Supreme Court case blocks states from making their own immigration policies, saying the case could be a “problem for Texas.” However, the Supreme Court now has a 6–3 conservative majority and might take a fresh look at the issue, he suggested, while adding that the 2012 case was “wrongly decided.” “So I’d encourage the governor to force people to be sent out of our state and make the federal government sue us [and] take that back to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Paxton said. Abbott’s orders were in response to the Biden administration’s plans to end Title 42 expulsions which were implemented during the Trump administration to prevent potential COVID-19 infected illegal migrants from crossing into the United States from …
Texas AG Backs Governor’s Policy of Sending Migrants to Washington
April 10, 2022
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