{"id":18131,"date":"2023-09-22T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18131"},"modified":"2023-09-22T08:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:14:19","slug":"texas-gov-greg-abbott-accuses-biden-administration-of-cutting-razor-wire-at-border-opening-the-floodgates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18131","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accuses Biden administration of cutting razor wire at border: &#8216;Opening the floodgates&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accused&nbsp;the Biden administration&nbsp;of recently cutting razor wire that the Lone Star State had installed in Eagle Pass.<br>The comments were made as&nbsp;Texas officials&nbsp;continue to spar with the White House over the migrant crisis at the Southern border. Abbott made the announcement Wednesday evening.<br>&#8220;Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossings,&#8221; Abbott explained on X, formerly known as Twitter. &#8220;Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings &amp; install more razor wire,&#8221; the Republican governor added.<br>The governor later posted a picture of a letter he sent directly to President Biden in November, and declared that the President&#8217;s policies caused &#8220;an invasion at our border.&#8221;<br>&#8220;We are building a border wall, razor wire &amp; marine barriers,&#8221; Abbott wrote. &#8220;We are also repelling migrants.&#8221;<br>In July, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas for installing a buoy barrier, which was designed to curb illegal immigration, on the Rio Grande. The barrier was developed as part of Abbott&#8217;s Operation Lone Star.&nbsp;<br>In the lawsuit,&nbsp;the DOJ claimed&nbsp;that the barrier obstructed &#8220;the navigable capacity of waters of the United States&#8221; and that it raised humanitarian, environmental and public safety concerns.<br>A federal judge initially told Texas to move the buoys, but the U.S. Court of Appeals stayed that decision. The case is still being deliberated through courts.<br>Fox News Digital reached out to Abbott and the White House, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-gov-greg-abbott-accuses-biden-administration-cutting-razor-wire-border-opening-floodgates\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accused&nbsp;the Biden administration&nbsp;of recently cutting razor wire that the Lone Star State had installed in Eagle Pass.The comments were made as&nbsp;Texas officials&nbsp;continue to spar with the White House over the migrant crisis at the Southern border. Abbott made the announcement Wednesday evening.&#8220;Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3393,10459,5571,1327,1506,3454,1214,1298],"class_list":["post-18131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-barbed-wire","tag-biden-administration","tag-blame","tag-border","tag-governor","tag-greg-abbott","tag-immigration","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18133,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions\/18133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}