Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb plans to join Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at a joint press conference at a southern border city on Sunday, along with 13 other governors who’ve backed Abbott in his fight with the feds over securing the border with Mexico.
The battle is over Texas’ $11 billion initiative called “Operation Lone Star,” in which state officials have been installing razor wire and other physical barriers along the Rio Grande to deter illegal immigration over the Biden Administration’s objections.
Abbott in October sued the federal government for cutting down the razor wire; in late January, in response to an emergency petition from the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the federal government, without explaining why.
Shortly after the ruling, 25 Republican governors, including Holcomb, issued a joint statement supporting Texas’ “right to self-defense.”
“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border,” they wrote. “We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.”