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How Texas keeps trying to block Biden on immigration
CNN
As President Biden seeks to roll back the restrictive immigration policies of the Trump administration, one state has countered him at nearly every turn: Texas. The reasons may have less to do with immigration than with politics.
He repealed Donald Trump's travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, halted construction on the border wall and proposed a path to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants. He ended the Trump-era program that forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico until their court hearings in the US, and set up a task force to reunite families previously separated at the southern border. But during all of Biden's attempts to roll back the restrictive immigration policies and anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Trump administration, one state has stood ready to counter him at nearly every turn: Texas.More Related News