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I agree with the other poster that they didn't think it through. They will have to spend thousands per crosser while the await their immigration hearings. That could add up very quickly.
Yes. They've managed to put their appendage into the same trap that the federal government is in.
It's easy to arrest these migrants. DHS takes literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them into custody all the time. The problem is what to do with them afterwards.
Texas doesn't have the jail capacity to keep very many of these folks locked up. They don't want to spend the many thousands of dollars per person to do so, even if they did. So they're going to end up having to release them on bail. Which is....exactly the same thing that they're upset at the federal government for doing? "Catch and release" and they show up for a court date? Or in the alternative, they just won't actually arrest very many people - a few for show and the cameras and the viral clips, but they'll mostly ignore their claimed ability to detain them because they don't know what to do with them?
The thread title is wrong, of course, because Texas isn't "blocking" illegals. They're just detaining them after they get here. Even apart from the legal considerations, we'll see if they're really interested in bearing the cost that comes with that.
