Background: Texas right-wing Gov. Abbott installed large floating barriers in the Rio Grande in an attempt to stop migrants from crossing into Mexico.
When told they weren’t legal and increased migrants’ chances of drowning, Gov. Abbott still refused to remove them.
Now the DOJ has filed a lawsuit, ordering Texas to remove the 1,000-foot line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises ‘humanitarian and environmental concerns. It also stipulates that the Republican Gov. violated the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act by building a structure in US water.
This is just the latest inhumane attempt by Abbott against migrants.
Abbott is pushing back defiantly, saying in a Fox News interview on Monday that he plans to “take this lawsuit all the way to the United States Supreme Court.”
Democratic lawmakers have called Abbott’s measures “barbaric.”