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Texas Doubles Down in Blaming Biden for Migrant Border Crisis

  • Republicans peg surge of criminals to president’s policies
  • States’ latest challenge escalates court fight begun in April
U.S. Border Patrol agents along the U.S. and Mexico border fence near Ocotillo, California, earlier in September. 

U.S. Border Patrol agents along the U.S. and Mexico border fence near Ocotillo, California, earlier in September. 

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg
By
Laurel Brubaker Calkins

Texas is doubling down on its claim that the Biden administration is worsening the migrant crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico by allowing the widespread release of undocumented immigrants convicted of non-violent crimes.

Texas and Louisiana told a federal judge late Friday the government is imperiling public safety by dumping into the U.S. dangerous criminals who should be locked up.