Justice Department sues Texas over Gov. Abbott s order for law enforcement to pull over vehicles with migrants
By URIEL J. GARCIA and The Texas Tribune
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A group of migrants wait to board a charter bus in front of the Catholic Charities RGV Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen on July 27, 2021. Credit: Jason Garza for The Texas Tribune
The Biden administration sued Texas on Friday, asking a federal judge to block Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that state troopers pull over drivers transporting migrants who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19 as a way to prevent the spread of the virus.
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On Thursday, July 29th, a Lubbock man pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling almost $700,000 worth of stolen checks.
KAMC News reports that on April 29th, 2021, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Lubbock County Sheriff s Office executed a search warrant for a home in the 3200 block of 53rd Street. Inside that home, officers found the suspect, 41-year-old Sheon Anthony Polk.
DPS agents at some point contacted the victim, who hasn t been publicly identified. The victim said that he didn t know Polk, and on top of that, didn t give him permission to possess the check, which had the words United States Treasury erased from the pay to the order of line. Agents also found 2 checks where the pay to the order of line was forged to the original payee as Sheon Polk.
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“Today’s ruling is a welcome step in our ongoing ministry to provide refugees, who are fleeing religious persecution, war, and other dangers, with safe haven here in the United States,” said Bishop Mario Dorsonville, an auxiliary bishop of Washington who chairs the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration.
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The Biden administration sued Texas on Friday to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state’s border with Mexico.
The Justice Department asked for an immediate block on Gov. Greg Abbott’s order issued Wednesday, which allows the Texas Department of Public Safety to “stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion” that it transports migrants. Troopers could then reroute vehicles back to their point of origin or impound them.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in El Paso, mirrors a letter that Attorney General Merrick Garland sent the governor a day earlier, arguing that the state was usurping and even interfering with the federal government’s responsibility to enforce immigration laws.