Border dispute between White House and Texas escalates after three drown

Biden administration says state officials acted unconstitutionally by preventing border patrol from helping mother and children

A dispute between the White House and Texas intensified on Monday after the Biden administration declared that state officials acted unconstitutionally by blocking federal agents from a section of the border where a migrant mother and two children drowned in the Rio Grande.

The Texas military department (TMD) fenced off a large public park at Eagle Pass last week on the orders of the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, who boasted on Friday “we are not allowing border patrol on that property any more”.