Beto O’Rourke, who ran unsuccessfully against Governor Greg Abbott, calls on President Biden to intervene and stop Abbott’s cruel tactics on the Texas-Mexico border.

He wrote in the New York Times:

Gov. Greg Abbott’s escalating political stunts have killed migrants at the Texas-Mexico border. Operation Lone Star — the dangerous, illegal and ineffective border mission that Mr. Abbott has been running separately from the federal government for over two years — must be stopped. It’s time for President Biden to step up.

The Supreme Court has consistently upheld that immigration enforcement is a power exclusive to the federal government — not the states. Elements of Mr. Abbott’s border operations have been found unconstitutional, violate federal law and conflict with U.S. treaty obligations to Mexico. Mr. Biden has every right — in fact, every responsibility — to intervene and enforce the federal government’s clear authority to regulate the border without state interference.

The lawsuit that the Department of Justice filed on Monday calls on Mr. Abbott to remove the dangerous floating barrier of buoys that he has installed in the Rio Grande. It is a good first step, but it is far from sufficient. Mr. Abbott has made clear that he does not intend to comply and isn’t going to wait for litigation to move through the courts to add to the gantlet of misery he’s constructed on the border.

Every day that Mr. Biden fails to stop Mr. Abbott leads to unnecessary, preventable suffering — and often death. Last week, a medic with the Texas Department of Public Safety blew the whistle on the governor’s deadly border operation, reporting that troopers have been ordered “to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande.”

Texas troopers have also installed razor “traps” in addition to a floating wall of buoys that are funneling asylum seekers into more dangerous parts of the river. The whistle-blower medic also reported cases in which the obstructions have contributed to drownings, maimed young children, snapped migrants’ legs and entangled a pregnant woman who ultimately miscarried her baby.

The Houston Chronicle recently published an internal memo from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection that states Operation Lone Star is preventing Border Patrol agents from carrying out their legal duties to process migrants and provide humanitarian aid. The memo was written just days before four migrants — including an infant — all drowned within a short period of one another while trying to cross to safety near Eagle Pass, Texas.

Governor Abbott claims to be a Christian but what kind of Christian sets out razor wire to entangle men, women, and children?