Ex-Trump officials urge Abbott to declare border 'invasion'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Border Patrol officials say they are planning for as many as 18,000 arrivals daily once the health policy, known as the Title 42 authority, expires in May.
51% : Their plan involves a novel interpretation of the U.S. Constitution to have the National Guard or state police forcibly send migrants to Mexico, without regard to immigration laws and law enforcement procedures.
51% : Cuccinelli said in practice, he envisions the plan would look similar to the enforcement of Title 42, which circumvented U.S. obligations under American law and international treaty to provide asylum.
44% : Tom Homan, the former acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, said at a border security conference in San Antonio last week he had spoken with Abbott but gave no indication about whether the two-term governor supported the idea.
43% : Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, issued a legal opinion in February declaring that Ducey has the power to use National Guard troops and state law enforcement to forcibly send migrants back.
42% : Brnovich is locked in a tough Republican U.S. Senate primary in which border security is a top issue.
39% : The urging comes as the Republican governor prepares to announce Wednesday 'œunprecedented actions' to deter migrants coming to Texas after the Biden administration announced last week it will end a public health law that has limited asylum to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
36% : The mission has also drawn criticism from Guard members over long deployments and little to do, and some arrests have appeared to have no connection to border security.'œUntil you are actually returning people to Mexico, what you are doing will have no effect,' Cuccinelli said.
10% : U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat whose district includes the Texas border, has criticized the Biden administration over border security and ending Title 42.

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