Biden’s ‘Catch and Release Agenda’ ‘Violates His Constitutional Duty’: Abbott

President Joe Biden’s “catch and release” policy for illegal immigrants coming across the U.S. southern border violates his constitutional duty, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday after a federal court struck down the program.
“Yesterday, another federal court announced what Texans—and Americans—have known all along: President Biden’s open border policies are, in the words of Judge Wetherell, ‘akin to posting a flashing Come In We’re Open sign on the southern border,’” Abbott, a Republican, said in a statement.
The federal government’s program of releasing illegal immigrants into the United States rather than holding them until their cases are resolved violates federal law, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell, a Trump appointee, ruled on March 8….}

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