The Department of Justice threatened to sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a new floating barrier of buoys dividing the Rio Grande between Mexico and Eagle Pass, Texas. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson has more on the controversy at the United States-Mexico border.
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#Mexico #Texas #Border
That’s not going to stop anyone from crossing. It’s just a $2M eyesore.
Democrats love human traffickers ❤
Stop them at all costs
The governor needs to consult his own Attirney General or at least a private attorney with significant experience in that area of law. He sounds uninformed and is wrong but do you expect him to respect and follow the law on the issue ? MAGA is above the law
Sure. Just let all of Haiti invade. That’s such a great idea. Fool!!!
Did you miss the IRONY of your own post?, You don’t care about the border laws though do you,??
If a president isnt going to follow American law and protect the border he should be removed it’s that simple…WE’RE NOT PROTECTING IT AND YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED EITHER…SMH…
We should be dragging his asa out of office! We’re weak!
It’s only 1000 feet people! That’s nothing
FOOK THE DOJ
They are being used to attack Biden’s political enemies.
Wow such human cruelty what is wrong with Texas abbott, what a really sick barstard
These illegals need to be stopped. I couldn’t care less HOW that’s done!!!
Crossing the border is illegally is ILLEGAL, what do you suggest, snowflake? This invasion must be stopped. I would suggest machine gun nests and napalm runs.
you are right, we should have a boat there for millions upon millions to illegally come in instead, good idea
💨🤡
Democrats are saying we cannot have this ! How will our new voters get in?
The main job of the Federal/Central government is to secure the borders and protect people’s Constitutional rights. Both are something the Biden administration has misserablly failed to do. To say our borders is insecure is a gross understatement and being made insecure by intention. This administration has compromised the First Amendment by pressuring social to social media to censor comments against the administration lying agenda. This administration is using each and every government agency to crush anyone that opposes their tyranny. Then there is the relentless attack on the people’s Second Amendment rights. The entire Biden administration has committed “High treason” ant every turn and the controlled media still upholds everything he does. Biden is nothing more than a mentally sick compromised figure head being used by an evil shadow government.
The democrats really want those illegal aliens🤡🤡
Abbott’s floating wall. Love it. Tell Brandon’s courts to go. You know.
Got anymore of dem Covid shots?😂
No problem with bouys in a swimming pool but our national security its a problem. If its working keep it up. Doj is mad they cant allow illegals in to profit. The Govt. Is not here to help just to tell you what to do and pay. You walked to find out this is not an open State. Thank you Gov. Abbot.
Sounds like it’s doing what it should do.
Federal government is derelict in its duties on the border and now actively trying to prevent states from doing so. Wbo cares about migrants safety they dont have to illegally cross
Hey so Jason j Braley how do there inspector you took sheet rock out on Clark st with power on it county line see box on grass so inspector get maybe should school system to
Turlock CA
Don’t mess with texas
Hey NBC pay attention. We the people have had enough
Texas should counter sue for all the money this is costing the state
I don’t think they’re illegal. The people crossing are tho
DOJ- WE NEED PROTECTION!!!! If President Joe Biden CANNOT or WILL NOT protect our country from the INVASION of ILLEGALS, then THANK YOU to Greg ABBOT, for protecting us from the SWARM that NEVER STOPS!!~~~ Joe Biden and Kamala are USELESS and American taxpaying citizens are FURIOUS & HATE that they have washed their hand of the DISASTER that THEY created!
Look if you think protecting the borders where countless people ILLEGALLY enter the USA daily is wrong, then you are borderline insane.
To bad you walked for months you shouldn’t have come here once you get to the 1st safe country away from your own that’s where you stay!! We already have more illegal immigrants than we can handle so happy to see this
Tell the DOJ to remove them themselves! They Stay! They’re like a Gill net for Mexicans.
Stay in Mexico and the barriers won’t affect you.. IMMIGRANTS stay home. The US is overpopulated .😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Obviously Biden and his handlers will everything in their power to keep the flow of illegal immigration coming into the US not to mention human smuggling and narcotics
Gagbit
This is all the evidence we need to tell us this “administration” (and Dems in general) are open borders TRAITORS.
Hope Texas tells the DOJ to get f*kd
Biden is taking credit for the jobs that built this barrier
Don’t sue. Just send in the Army to destroy the barriers.
treasonous snake.
Good and Texas will just put them right back up
So we’re drowning people now that’s cool
You go sir Abbott, you are truly a god, i support mass deportation
To all those that feel bad about “the poor migrants”
Let them in to your home and eat your food.
NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU.
WE SHOULD ALSO ADD ELECTRIC FENCING. THERE APPROVING IT FOR BUSSINESSES ALL OVER WASHINGTON. IT IS NON LEATHAL. WE USE IT SAFELY EVERYDAY FOR OUR PETS AND ANIMALS. IT KEEPS THEM FROM WANDERING INTO DANGEROUS AREAS “LIKE HIGHWAYS”. WE COULD KEEP THE RAZOR WIRE BEHIND IT. MOST ELECTRIC FENCE TECHNOLOGY TODAY USES SO LITTLE VOLTAGE THAT A SINGLE SOLAR PANEL CAN CHARGE 1 mile of wire. We need to combine it with a material that cannot be cut. Democrats are just angry that solutions are available and being enforced which will drop thier voting numbers. In the end we will be safer, including the migrants who decide NOT to take the trip.
The numbers have dropped drastically.. sure, it’s 115 degrees out there now. Just wait until October..
You mean DOJ is trying to help fed govt in child trafficking scheme. Got it👍🏻
Why so much separation we are all humans on the same planet.
Stand your ground Texas!!
If this is the way, they feel is right to treat people. How far will they go to control Americans one day?
Over six million illegal invaders have crossed our southern borders, as more millions from the poorest, most violent countries head north. Those hers, are relocated throughout the country, now living in hotels, schools, airports, etc. This is pure insanity, how are hard working, tax paying, American folks allowing this?
Cmon. A better way. This is barbaric, especially it can take 2 days to build a road like in Philadelphia. I mean, I bet everyone hires these folks for labor. All the vacant land in America,heck naw it’s dramatic and barbarous. Like what was done to my Ancestors. America has money too, we’ve seen the proof. Too much land .
No country on earth can survive millions of illegal invaders every year. This is and will destroy the country.
There’s laws against booby traps.
It’s a shame Trump didn’t put more on the border
The Federal Govt run the USA and the citizen’s don’t care. Wow jst wow.
Trump was right the USA Govt, has been weaponised.
Comment New Zealand.
Can someone tell me what’s the problem with placing the boys in the water?
we cannot handle anymore, and the ones here are siphoning pro-bono resources like crazy in the hospitals. This has to stop at some point as my cousin works in the hosp. Multiple times we treat inpatients for weeks finding out they already had treatment in another facility under same medical diagnosis… they just jumped cities and demanded care via “911” or Uber dropping them off at the next ER.
Remove river buoys or we will sue.
Let illegals in, some which are serious criminals (no problem) others who only abuse the system
Those migrants need to go back home
Who the heck sold the government those stupid bouys? Hmm? Mr. Abbot? Are you now, or have you ever been involved in with bouys? As in manufacturing, sales or promotions?
We must feed and house every one of these immigrants or god will strike us down
so they DOJ continue showing that they are against Americas best interest.
Joe Biden is the worst “president” of all time.
Feds sue Texas over river barriers used to repel migrants and Joe says: Effective May 11, 2023, the U.S. government will generally presume individuals who unlawfully enter the United States through its southwest land border or adjacent coastal borders are ineligible for asylum, unless they can demonstrate an exception to the rule or rebut the presumption.
I don’t know if anyone else has realized this or not.,, but the entire state of Texas, is run by mexicans, hondurians, and guatemalan’s most of which are employed by construction companies, land scape companies, and the restaurant industry. Over half of which i could guarantee did not have proper papers. Nobody cares they absolutely love the cheap and abudant source of labor. That is not going to change. You can put up all the floaty barriers you want it will make no difference whatsoever.
@0:35 isn’t crossing the Rio Grande River itself dangerous? How’s it different than not having buoy there? 🤷
Finally, a Governor who has got a couple of big brass balls hanging between his legs. Stand firm. We do not need any more future DEMONcratic voters choking this country to death.
THERE SHOULD BE NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
DOJ interfering with border security, huh?
Why can’t they just swim underneath them?
And the next lame argument will be that it is inhumane to have walls in your home.
God bless Texas for doing something our president doesn’t care about them or the rest of us.
Isn’t international affairs the purview of the FEDERAL government? The feds should take that barrier out, and send Texas the bill. Furthermore, if I had my way, the feds would charge Abbott with a CRIME.
So Biden and the DOJ wants to sue Abbott for trying to protect our borders form the Cartels, Fentanyl, Child Trafficking, Terrorist, MS13 and Criminals.. WOW
Biden and dorkus mayorkas turned the DHS into the Department of Human Smuggling the first day Biden took office as POTUS.
RIO GRANDE AREA WITH BUOYS IS NOT A LEGAL ENTRY TO ENTER COUNTRY. BUOYS STOP CARTELS. ILLEGALS ARE NOW CATCHING A BIDEN BUS TO LEGAL ENTRIES. NBC STOP CHERRY PICKING THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS. IMPEACH JOE BIDEN FOR MONEY LAUNDERING WITH UKRAINE OLIGARCHS AND VIOLATING U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Like he said, the river is treacherous. The buoys are deterring people from crossing and drowning. This is a humane solution. Why the feds are big mad makes no sense.
Don’t sue Abbot sue the Bidens for never ever stepping a foot at the border. We stand behind Abbot 💯 we are fed up.!
Abbott couldn’t’ve thought of this stupid stunt all by himself. He had help. What next? … a mile-long inflatable alligator moat(?)
Department of Justice is dead wrong.. Texas Gov. Gree Abbott has the right to protect its border..
Don’t threaten Do It, it’s the only way you hold people accountable for criminal actions, the saddest part of this is that idiotic Texans think Abbott’s behavior is ok .
the interviewed the illegal guy complaining about how he can’t cross illegally, if dems didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any at all, what a sick group of individuals, prioritizing others over their own nation, in short traitors in office.
This network is so woKe and far left that it will make your head spin.
Texas has the right to defend it’s borders from a government that’s a fraud And does cocaine. Sorry I don’t have faith in a president that does cocaine.
China built militarized islands in international waters and our government says nothing , our states try to protect their borders and our government sues them .
Abbot is a HATEFUL, CORRUPT DEMON.
Considering the U$A cost of living and how companies building factories in Mexico these days, the barriers/walls may be needed to keep people in the U$A.
Oh, how many of you can swim a foot deep and three feet wide, or walk past the 1000 foot length?
Great show biz, though useless.
I am glad God put me here since birth, not by my own determined choice, to be a debt slave.
God gave Texass to palefeces to promote slavery as the Bible does.
Ask your leaders in Venezuela starting with President Nicolás Maduro Moros to enact policies to take care of the needs of its citizens.
Ask President Nicolás Maduro Moros to provide money to house, feed, clothe and provide medical care for its citizens. You will not have to make a trek with your children to the US border.
Problem solved!
Put piranhas in that water I keep telling you
Since when is the DOJ actually interested in Law?
Leave them there forever. We have to stop the leak some way or another .
Abbott ain’t removing them. See you in court DOJ
Orourke is asking the DOJ to sue Texas. That tells me just how wicked the Demoncrats are.
Most don’t realize that the river doesn’t belong to Texas. There are international treaties with Mexico that date back to the times Texas was Mexico.
More like the Department of INJUSTICE. The Democrats have weaponized and corrupted the Justice Department beyond salvation.
Our Govt. Lies straight to our face. Amazing some of you crazy people voted for these evil people. ” The Border Is Closed” they say. And yet they are suing Texas . If the border is closed then y does the barrier matter? Our Government has lost its mind and truly is up 2 something evil
Id deport maga confederate traitors and let hard working Mexican immigrants with zero criminal history in. Mexican immigrants never wrecked our beloved American Capitol like trump traitors did.
Id like to deport the confederate governor of Texas and replace him with Willie Nelson.
The greatest thing for america
USA government must open the borders for migrants from central and South America
Same DOJ..that’s been protecting the Biden family. No problem their right? Let them sue. .what are they going to say. We want to be able to control how many people drown in that stretch of river. 🤔
they are ILLEGALS not migrants