Greg Casar: “We must stop the dangerous, expensive, corrupt, and ineffective political stunts at the border and instead chart a new…”

“We must stop the dangerous, expensive, corrupt, and ineffective political stunts at the border and instead chart a new path for a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system. Abbott's Operation Lone Star must end, and I urge passage of the amendment of the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), my good friend, to ensure Federal funding does not go to this failed program. Every day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott violates the rights of asylum seekers and violates the rights of our border communities all to score political points against President Biden. We have seen these inhumane policies in action that have taken the lives of children at the border, and we have lost National Guardsmen to death. This is not only inhumane, but Operation Lone Star is not effective. Governor Abbott is lighting $25 million on fire every week to cause suffering instead of creating solutions. Why do my colleagues across the aisle not want solutions? Because they have no interest in a functioning immigration system. They thrive off of keeping the immigration system broken so they can continue to stoke anti-immigrant fears for their own politics. Operation Lone Star, furthermore, is also unconstitutional. In Arizona v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled the Federal Government, not people like Governor Abbott, have supremacy over the immigration system. Abbott's unconstitutional, abusive, wasteful, and inhumane Operation Lone Star is a disgrace to our State and to our Nation.…”