Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday President Joe Biden’s open border policies are costing the state “billions of dollars.”
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Paxton said the migrant surge is “a humanitarian disaster and the border towns are suffering more than any others.”
“We have the burdens in our state, we will have to educate them and take care of their health care, we have to figure out their family situation and deal with law enforcement issues,” he said. “It costs the state of Texas billions of dollars.”
“Every time the administration like Obama administration, the Biden administration, opens up the border, it increases our cost,” he added.“We also have the social cost, the crime, increased crime. I wish President [Joe] Biden would talk to the families that have been affected by the crime who have lost loved ones because of immigration. I think it might affect him and give him a different perspective on the downside of the policies that are devastating some of the families in my state.”
Paxton asserted Biden doesn’t have the power to change immigration law.
“He announced for the first 100 days of his administration that you can come across the border and you would not be deported,” he said. “That’s not his job to change the law and I think his policies, his announced policies, send the signal to the world, ‘Come across the border and you’ll be welcome, you’ll be taken care of.’
“I think it’s clear that he wants that to happen because he knows from past experience under the Obama administration that if you do that, people will come and it totally worked.”
Paxton also echoed the criticism of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of HR1.
“Labeling this the ‘corrupt politicians act’ is absolutely true because it would eliminate voter ID, which we do in our state to verify that you are the right person voting,” he said.
“It would push mail-in ballots which are the highest incidents of voter fraud and allow for felons to votes and would allow for illegals and do everything possible to open up elections so they are not credible anymore,” he continued.
“I think it will ruin the democracy and make our election totally unreliable in every single state instead of just a few,” he said.
But he said it was just one of the measures he is concerned about coming from the Biden administration.
“We are extremely concerned about what this administration is doing even with things like the Keystone pipeline,” he said. “We think they are in a war against fossil fuel and there’s no good stated purpose for shutting down the Keystone pipeline… we are losing jobs and we have to ship that through railcar which is not environmentally friendly like pipeline. I have not heard one good reason for shutting down the pipeline.”
Source: Newmax
