Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton discusses Governor Greg Abbott's plan to bus migrants to D.C. to combat the border crisis.
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joining us now is texas attorney
general KEN paxton,
MR attorney general great, to
talk to you this morning,
JEB Zack, key accuse Jen psaki
accuses this of being a
publicity stunt.
What will this promise from the
texas governor actually
accomplish?
You know I wish it was a
publicity stunt.
She doesnt care about the
reality of whats happening on
the texas border and
ultimately, whats happening to
all of our states, because really
every state is a border state
now affected by whats, going on
along the border.
We have a massive increase in
drug overdoses. We have had
covid spread around weve had
all kinds of crime issues.
This is a real issue.
Will yeah we can see the
numbers four thousand thats the number of
four thousand thats the number of
border encounters in march, two thousand and nineteen
seven thousand this year.
Where does it go?
Pronexts are eighteen thousand
projections
its a real problem, no doubt
about it
and by the way ive had people
as I travel the country say this
is what we ought to do. Will we
ought to send them to the
doorsteps of politicians and
maybe theyll deal with the
issue?
Lets take psakis criticism
straight on.
She says the texas governor has
no power to force anyone onto a
bus to be sent wherever he would
like.
Does the texas governor? Do you
have that power?
If not, how do you accomplish
this promise?
Look, we have a problem. We
have this case, called: u dot s v,
arizona which I think was
decided wrongly.
In that case they basically told
arizona. You know back in the
obama administration that they
couldnt pass laws to protect
their citizens when the federal
government was not enforcing
their own laws.
I think that was wrongly
decided
so iD encourage the governor to
force people to be sent out of
our state and make the federal
government sue us. Take that
back to the? U dot S supreme court
say: look you have to allow
statements. Governors like
governor abbott, who cares about
his people, to protect his
people from the federal
government who wont protect the
border and wont protect the
people of our state?
Will if thats the case, let me
press you on that then,
if thats the case- and I
understand your argument- lets
just go ahead and do it leapt
the federal government come out
and sort this out legally,
but if youre willing to flout
federal government authority,
why not send illegal immigrants
back across the southern
boarder?
Why, instead of sending them to
washington d dot c, why not take
on the authority of deporting
illegal immigrants?
You know, I think the
governors tried to do that.
Hes tried to round up people
who have been transported around
the statement and send them
back.
We actually are in a lawsuit
about that right now,
hes made that attempt
s in at attempt to send to the
federal government. I think its
a reasonable argument:
hey look if youre not going
to. Let us deport that and
were in the middle of
litigation on that right now to
see if we do, why not send
them to the doorstep of Joe
Biden and let him take care of
the problem that hes creating
will certainly a lot of
conversation. A lot of response
with this idea.
It is con, accept conceptually an
interesting proposal and one.
Transcript generated on 2022-11-25.