Texas Gov. Abbott insists courts will side with state over feds in border battle: 'We can win'

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by Kendall Tietz

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott said President Biden’s press secretary was “uninformed” in her rhetoric about the state’s border security measures, adding Thursday he believes the state will prevail in the courts over the Biden administration.

Greg Abbott pushes back at KJP over border crisis: She is ‘uninformed’

Karine Jean-Pierre said in a new interview it was “unfortunate” that Abbott “has politicized this issue of what’s happening on the border, and it’s not making people’s lives safer.”

“It’s actually making it harder for law enforcement at the border to do their job,” she told CNN.

Abbott fired back on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday, calling it “a very uninformed comment on her part.”

“There’s really only one person in America not doing their job, and that’s the President of the United States, who’s not enforcing immigration laws,” he said.

“Also, as she has already been called out, and the president and other Democrats and media, they have cast a false narrative about some people dying on the border, that apparently Texas denied Border Patrol access to, that’s been completely debunked.”

The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday in a case involving a razor wire fence along Texas’ border with Mexico, allowing Border Patrol agents to cut concertina wire that Texas had installed while litigation continues…