Biden's unpopular border policy
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Nearly 9 in 10 in new poll hold feds responsible for border crisis, most expect states to fix
Among Republicans, 91% in Trafalgar survey said it was the federal government's responsibility. Surprisingly, only slightly fewer Democrats, 83%, gave the same response.
Texas has already been taking action leading migrants to go into the three other border states, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Some migrants are also going to Canada first to migrate to northern states.
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Crenshaw won't support 'crazy' GOP border legislation that 'doesn't address the cartels'
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"It doesn't talk about the cartels," he added. "So the people who have operational control of the border, the people who are killing 80,000 Americans a year by trafficking fentanyl through the border — are completely unaddressed in this bill. This is something we've brought up to leadership many times over the past few months as they've gone over this."
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Legislation already exists that can "easily be inserted into this," he said. This legislation would provide for "bigger penalties for cartels, using a lot of the same language — the legal language that you would use if you did designate an organization as a terrorist organization," as well as "going after their finances, going after people who aid and abet them, sanctions, things like that."
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And:
Shelters in a Texas city struggled to find space Saturday for migrants who authorities say have abruptly begun crossing by the thousands from Mexico, testing a stretch of the U.S. border that is typically equipped to handle large groups of people fleeing poverty and violence.
The pace of arrivals in Brownsville appeared to catch the city on the southernmost tip of Texas off guard, stretching social services and putting an overnight shelter in an uncommon position of turning people away. Officials say more than 15,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have illegally crossed the river near Brownsville since last week.
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