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The border crisis in Texas was the backdrop for the presidential campaign Thursday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the construction of a base camp for nearly 2,000 soldiers on the border.

The Justice Department was in a federal court in Austin Thursday hoping to persuade a federal judge to block Senate Bill 4, which will give police power to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally.

The situation at the Texas-Mexico border is attracting religious groups from out of state with competing agendas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's floating border barrier will remain in place in the Rio Grande for now. A majority of the 17 justices who make up 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have agreed to hear the buoy barrier case.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department said that Texas denied federal agents access to a stretch of border when they were trying to rescue three migrants who drowned.

Republican leaders of Congress went to see the border problem for themselves, and the evidence was easy to find. They repeated their call for President Biden to take immediate action on the border.

The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened to sue to stop a new Texas law that allows state police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border — unless Gov. Greg Abbott backs off of enforcing the law.

The vote comes after a monthslong push by Greene to remove the top border official from his post over accusations Mayorkas is failing to maintain “operational control” of U.S. borders.

Democrats have become reluctant negotiators in a fight over the border as Senate Republicans leverage Ukraine aid to extract policy concessions.