When Texas authorities arrest illegal immigrants they will now be able to take them and dump them back on the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.
The Republican governor signed an executive order empowering his state police and the Texas National Guard to deliver them from the state’s interior back to the ports of entry, or official border crossing points.
Mr. Abbott said he was compelled to step up after President Biden took federal agencies off the field with new relaxed border policies, which he said led to “historic levels of illegal crossings” in recent days.