It seems like the Justice Department has nothing better to do than try to keep the border as open to illegal crossers as possible.
The Biden DoJ is bringing a lawsuit against Texas because the state has put a floating barrier in the Rio Grande to discourage illegal immigrants from attempting to cross into the United States.
The message is clear: If you oppose the open borders agenda the government will destroy you.
The civil suit said Gov. Greg Abbott violated federal law by installing the barrier and asked a judge to order the defendants to "promptly remove the unauthorized obstruction" at their own expense.
The lawsuit cites the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899, which bars the "creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States."
It seems like a pretty big stretch to take a law that prevents the blocking of commerce boats on American waterways and apply it to illegal aliens trying to swim across the US border.
I wasn't there when it was written, but I'm pretty sure that's not the point of the law.
But the Biden DoJ is looking for ANY excuse to sue Texas as it tries to secure its border.
To his credit, Abbott is not backing down.
Earlier Monday, Abbott sent a letter sent to President Joe Biden accusing him of attempting to hamstring his state's "sovereign interest" in securing its border.
"In a late-night letter sent to me last Thursday, your lawyers at the Department of Justice threatened to sue the State of Texas over the floating marine barriers we have deployed in the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass," Abbott wrote. "Texas will see you in court, Mr. President..."
"Neither of us wants to see another death in the Rio Grande River," Abbott wrote. "Yet your open-border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives by crossing illegally through the water, instead of safely and legally at a port of entry. Nobody drowns on a bridge."
Biden is simultaneously blaming Texas when an immigrant drowns trying to cross, yet refusing to acknowledge that their free-for-all policy incentivizes dangerous and illegal crossings.
Democrats can ignore federal law any time they want, but if Texas tries to secure the border in a legal manner, the Left turns it into a scandal.
