The briefing on the case was completed now almost 10 days ago.
Injunctions by their very nature… are emergency actions — and it is time for the federal district court in the western district of Texas to rule.
Tomorrow would be good — even if too slow, given the nature of the emergency — life threatening injuries, to humans entitled to legal protection, when seeking asylum under our federal laws. Here’s the latest compiled data, from the Houston Chronicle’s Texas state level FOIA requests:
…The medical data, obtained by Hearst Newspapers through a public information request, offer the most complete picture yet of injuries along the border, where Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande. [At least 133 asylum seekers were treated for laceration injuries by state troopers.] The actions have drawn concerns, including from [federal agents at] Border Patrol, about an increased risk of injury and drownings….
Both GOP Gov. Abbott and GOP AG Ken Paxson need to be out of office. As fate would have it, the latter’s trial opens tomorrow — on wide ranging criminal charges of official corruption. He may well be disbarred, shortly as well (he cannot remain AG without a valid Texas law license, BTW). Out.
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