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Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge
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BEN FOX and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press
March 17, 2021
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1of11Texas DPS officers gather near a closed walkway to the Dallas convention center before a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas.LM Otero/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks during a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas.LM Otero/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of11FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, a sign sits in front of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The U.S. government wants to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at the center as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant children who have inundated the border and strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration.Tony Gutierrez/APShow MoreShow Less
Vehicle that fled police crashes, killing 8 immigrants, driver is charged
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A crash that killed eight suspected undocumented immigrants in Val Verde County was apparently part of an increase in smuggling activity with thousands of migrants crossing the Mexican border into the United States.
The crash on Monday follows one in early March in California that killed 13 undocumented immigrants. Smugglers are bringing more and more migrants across the Rio Grande on rafts and have been caught hauling hundreds of them in semi-trucks, making border enforcement once again a flash point in America’s political discourse.
The south Texas wreck also comes on the heels of criticism by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has blamed the Biden Administration for the surge and enlisted the Texas Department of Public Safety to help stem the flow of immigrants.
Fact check: Abbott exaggerates COVID-19 concerns about migrants entering Texas
Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact
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Gov. Greg Abbott talks to reporters during a press conference about a package of election reforms, at Senator Paul Bettencourt s District Office on Monday, March 15, 2021, in Houston.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
One day after Gov. Greg Abbott announced he would lift the statewide mask mandate and allow all businesses to open to 100% capacity, the governor turned his attention to the coronavirus spreading along the Texas-Mexico border. The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities, the governor said in a March 3 tweet. The Biden Admin. must IMMEDIATELY end this callous act that exposes Texans & Americans to COVID.