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How Ken Paxton Built His Border Security Record Through Court Battles

As Election Day nears, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s record shows repeated support for efforts to secure the southern border.

Paxton has served as attorney general since 2015. Since then, he has consistently supported measures related to the Texas-Mexico border. He launched legal efforts to defend state laws related to crime and illegal immigration, and he won multiple federal court battles against the Biden administration.

In 2019, during President Donald Trump’s first term, Paxton joined Trump at a roundtable discussion in McAllen, Texas, focused on border security. The meeting was intended to discuss conditions at the southern border and potential responses to illegal immigration.

In 2021, after President Joe Biden took office, Paxton continued filing lawsuits challenging the administration’s immigration policies.

After Biden suspended certain deportation actions, Paxton filed a complaint in 2021 seeking to halt the Department of Homeland Security’s freeze on removals.

In March of that year, he led a 14-state coalition before the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of a federal law prohibiting immigration by illegal aliens who are likely to rely on taxpayer-funded government programs. Months later, in July, Paxton won a ruling from a U.S. District Court judge that blocked the federal government from approving new applications under the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood........

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