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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he will appeal the ruling of a judge in his state who ruled on Thursday that Operation Lone Star, launched to combat the arrival of undocumented immigrants across the border with Mexico, violates the United States Constitution.
“I will fight this nonsense on appeal”, Paxton indicated on Twitter, assuring that Texas has the right to “defend” its border with Mexico given that the federal authorities, in his opinion, “refuse” to do so.
Travis County State District Judge Jan Soifer ruled this Thursday in favor of a lawsuit against the arrest of Ecuadorian Jesús Alberto Guzmán Curipoma, who was seeking asylum and was detained by state authorities in Texas.
Guzmán Curipoma’s defense argues that the arrest of his client It violates the clause of the US Constitution that stipulates that federal laws have supremacy over state laws, and that states cannot “obstruct or discriminate” with the application of federal immigration laws.
But the Attorney General believes that President Joe Biden, in his opinion, has “failed” in its task of reducing the arrival of immigrants, for which Texas had to “intervene”.
“Ridiculous”, Paxton crossed out about the ruling in the lawsuit that challenges Operation Lone Star, created last year by the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, as part of his campaign against the immigration policies of the Biden Administration, which it considers insufficient.
Abbott announced the start of Operation Lone Star in March of last year to counteract with state resources the increase in the migratory flow.
As part of this measure, the governor mobilized about 10,000 soldiers of National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety troops to the border and local authorities were instructed to charge immigrants with trespassing after crossing the southern border undocumented and traversing state or private land.
Under this order, hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been arrested in recent months and prosecuted for trespassing charges that they cross on their way to the interior from the country.
Texas continues to register the highest number of migratory crossings and the Del Río Sector is the second where the most “encounters” are registered between border agents and undocumented immigrants in the entire region, with near 58,000 last November, the last month for which official figures are available.