Justice Dept. will sue Texas Gov. Abbott over floating barrier wall | USA TODAY



The Justice Department says they are planning to sue the Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the razor wire and floating barrier installed to deter migrants.

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“The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the department wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday.

The letter, a copy of which was obtained by USA TODAY, gives Texas officials until Monday to commit to removing the barrier. If there is no response, the Justice Department will pursue legal action, the letter warns.

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  1. THIS IS NO WAY IS HELPING UNITED STATES IT HELPING MEXICO WHICH IS BREAKING OUR LAWS ON BORDER PROTECTION. YOUR TOP PRIORITY IS KEEP AND PROTECT UNITED STATES NOT MEXICO! DOING THIS YOUR PROTECTING MEXICO HELPING THEM!

  2. YOUR FIRST PRIORITY IS NOT TO HELP ILLEGAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING OR DRUGS PASS THROUGH THAT BORDER BUT TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE YOUR NOT GETTING PAID TO KEEP MEXICO SAFE BUT KEEP AMERICA SAFE IN DOING THIS YOU ARE ACTUALLY BREAKING THE LAWS HELPING MEXICO ..

  3. ANYONE HELPING ILLEGAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS MAKING MONEY OFF IT WHY ELSE WOULD THEY HELP IT ALONG!

  4. The Justice Department is helping Cartel by doing this which is helping the illegal human trafficking why are you making money of it you got a cut in illegal human trafficking that what it seems if your helping it along?

  5. Can't stand Abbott can't stand Texas, but keep up the good work!

  6. Joe Biden is a good Christian man. Life matters more than a border. How cruel and sick to slice children with razors. Evil, demonic spirits are down there in Texas. Horrific.

  7. Hes 🗑️ just like his supporters.

  8. Last year, Nearly 900 Illegal Migrants died, mostly Drownings in The Rio Grande River. The Biden Administration's Policies Aren't Good for Anyone

  9. BRING IT LIBERALS!!! We own the Supreme Court. It we win the next Republican president can enforce this on California 😈

  10. Someone has to protect our borders here in texas! Because the US won't

  11. Great idea, now get the snipers.

  12. Democrats need more voters, it's why they are suing

  13. 🖕🏻the DOJ! At least we know Greg Abbott is working to protect US citizens! Even if no one else is!

  14. 7 of 20 Does it accept the science and evidence all around its genetically-inferior, 500 years of "convict-colony" inbreeding-depression,
    8 lead poisoned I.Q. ZERO, estrogen-poisoned sperm-count ZERO,
    9 disgustingly WASP-
    10 skinned body?
    A

  15. 11 Of its extinction
    12 by the year 2060 due to its greenhouse g@s emissions

  16. 13 and illegal, undeclared, war-crimes-wars
    A

  17. 15 it has waged in South America and Central America since 1953?
    16 Which are causing the climate-change-refugees

  18. 18 you runaway-AGW-denying
    19 freaks deny exists;

  19. 20 yes or no Ku Klux Klan for brains?

  20. It is a pathological-lying, runaway-AGW-denying, psychopathic, Ku Klux Klan, threat to all life on Earth that The Holy Trinity orders all real-Christian-men protect their family by protecting our Mother the Earth from extinction by the year 2060 due to its greenhouse g@s emissions which are causing the climate-change-refugees at the southern border that the Ku Klux Klan wants to k!ll by closing the border to the undeclared, illegal-war-crimes wars-refugees it has waged in South America and Central America since 1953! The political-refugees standing next to the global-warming-refugees its actions are creating all over the planet!

  21. Stop creating refugees at the southern-border seeking asylum from the conditions it is causing.

  22. I hope the justice department loses that case.

  23. 1 of many You sick, insane, suicidal, cowardly chemically-feminized-MANgina, eunuch things that refuse to protect its family from AGW.

  24. 2 Cannot be made to understand that an embryo is not alive as it cannot live without its umbilical cord,

  25. 1 of many You sick, insane, suicidal, cowardly chemically-feminized-MANgina, eunuch things that refuse to protect its family from AGW.
    2 Cannot be made to understand that an embryo is not alive as it cannot live without its umbilical cord,

  26. 3 is not a baby, and is NOT protected by The Ten Commandments.

  27. 4 IT creates the global-warming-refugees

  28. 3 is not a baby, and is NOT protected by The Ten Commandments.
    4 IT creates the global-warming-refugees

  29. 1 of many You sick, insane, suicidal, cowardly chemically-feminized-MANgina, eunuch things that refuse to protect its family from AGW.
    2 Cannot be made to understand that an embryo is not alive as it cannot live without its umbilical cord,
    3 is not a baby, and is NOT protected by The Ten Commandments.
    4 IT creates the global-warming-refugees

  30. 5 at the southern border with its greenhouse g@s emissions;

  31. 6 that is causing $300 a month rent increases and homelessness throughout the entire country!!!

  32. 5 at the southern border with its greenhouse g@s emissions;
    6 that is causing $300 a month rent increases and homelessness throughout the entire country!!!

  33. 3 is not a baby, and is NOT protected by The Ten Commandments.
    4 IT creates the global-warming-refugees
    5 at the southern border with its greenhouse g@s emissions;
    6 that is causing $300 a month rent increases and homelessness throughout the entire country!!!

  34. The only one trying to stop this madness is the the one that is going to be sued, really…?!
    Welcome to the Brandon the Clown administration FJB

  35. Its no secret that Biden is a traitor to the USA and encourages illegal immigration. It is time we impeach him !!!!

  36. Living Proof your current president is a complete moron.

  37. I think that it is long past time for the citizens to put this out of control federal government in its place. It has to go. We have allowed this corruption to occur and only we can stop it. Our founding fathers were called to action over a out of control government now its our turn. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence “In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Never have those words meant more than today…. Back in 1776 there were two groups in America. Patriots – Those loyal to liberty and freedom and Loyalists – those loyal to the established government. I am no loyalist and neither is any one I know. Time to man up and do our duty as Patriots. Don’t Tread On Me!!

  38. The Justice Department is an enemy of the USA – they should be put on a terrorist list. They are trying their best to destroy the USA.