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Shell_Seas

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Thu Jan 25, 2024, 07:54 PM Jan 2024

Has Greg Abbott Gone Mad With Power? [View all]

Greg Abbott's fact-challenged statement echoes cries of the past as his political theater has overstepped the law and the Supreme Court.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/has-greg-abbott-gone-mad-with-power



Yesterday, Greg Abbott issued an alarming statement. It was full of mistruths, and the language used came directly from South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of secession.

Let’s fact-check this.

The “broken the compact between the United States and the States” is similar to the words in South Carolina’s 1860 declaration of secession.

There are no immigration laws in the book that Biden refuses to follow. In fact, he’s following the same laws we’ve had in place for 44 years under the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

If an asylum seeker wants to ask for asylum, they have to do it on American soil. So, crossing the Rio Grande and asking border patrol for asylum is perfectly legal.

In November, the Cato Institute published a study which found that migrants were more likely to be released by Trump than Biden.

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