The White House on Wednesday strongly criticized Texas's border fence but did not call it illegal.
A reporter asked about the fence during the afternoon press briefing and whether it violated any laws, leading to a sharp response from press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre."I can't speak to the legal piece of the wires," she told Dallas Morning News reporter Todd Gillman."What I can say is that we're going to continue to condemn any actions, these types of actions, that [Gov. Greg Abbott ] takes.
Abbott has installed multi-layered razor wire and a wall of floating buoys along the U.S-Mexico border in an effort to deter illegal immigrants from trying to cross. But the moves have generated controversy, however, with lawsuits and formal complaints from Mexico. One Texas trooper complained that Abbott's border policies"have stepped over the line into the inhumane.""When we're dealing with 100 or 1,000 people, one of the goals is to slow down and deter as many of them as possible," he said on June 8.
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