Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the ongoing fight with the federal government and says Texas has the right to protect its border

The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4, to lift a lower court’s injunction preventing Biden administration officials from removing concertina wire the state of Texas erected on the border with Mexico to slow the rush of would-be immigrants. The court has yet to rule on the merits of the case, so in the meantime, the invasion continues.

President Joe Biden’s border crisis started even before he was sworn into office in January 2021, with illegal immigrants rushing the U.S.-Mexico border in anticipation of Biden’s promised lax border enforcement.

And who could blame the would-be migrants? Then-candidate Biden promised to not build "another foot" of Trump’s border wall while suggesting that those seeking asylum should "surge to the border."

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As a result, the estimated population of illegal aliens in America has soared from 14.5 million at the end of President Donald Trump’s term of office in 2020 to 16.8 million in 2023. This year, the rate of illegal entries into the U.S. is on pace to hit 3 million with about 1 million of those likely to be released by the Border Patrol — and this doesn’t include an additional 600,000 or so "got-aways" who elude the Border Patrol, many of whom are drug runners, criminals and........

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