White House Slams Texas Governor for Blocking Border Agents
- Texas National Guard seizes riverside park in border town
- State, federal authorities at loggerheads over migrant issue
Texas troopers stand near a "No Trespassing" sign and concertina wire at Shelby Park on Aug. 1 in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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The Biden administration said Texas is preventing federal agents from processing migrants from Mexico by blocking access to a municipal park in the border town of Eagle Pass.
As part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s escalating face-off with the White House over border policy, the Texas National Guard has seized control of a park used by migrants to enter the US. Federal border patrol officers dispatched to process arriving migrants have been denied access to the park, according to a filing with the US Supreme Court.