The Biden administration refused Gov. Greg Abbott's appeal that the federal government reimburse Texas for millions of dollars spent responding to the migrant crisis at the southern border.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell denied the Texas Republican's request that the agency reconsider its denial to approve the state's request for an emergency declaration, the Washington Examiner reported.
The governor urged the government to honor his disaster status and pay for the higher-than-normal state and local operations on the basis that "Border security is a federal responsibility," the Examiner said.
Abbott did not say how much Texas had spent to secure the border, though he did say "Thousands" of National Guard members and state police have been sent to the border since Operation Lone Star was a launched in March.
John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sent a joint letter to Biden in support of Abbott's appeal.
"The state and local communities in Texas bear direct and indirect costs of the increasing volume of illegal immigration along the southwest border, and federal assistance is necessary to further protect the lives, property, public health, and safety of the communities along the border." Texas officials are bracing for a possible rush of more than 60,000 Haitian migrants just weeks after thousands of Haitians arrived in the border town of Del Rio, Texas.
The Biden administration not only has limited the reach of Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it also has been releasing migrants into the U.S..
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-fema-texas-abbott/2021/10/25/id/1041897/
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