any water is just extremely cruel and barbaric. and texas governor fwreg greg abbott has launched a border crackdown called operation lone star. i fessguess part of this is the floating barriers, these floating barriers that the state put there this the rio grande that could cause a droungwning hazard? what is your sense of it? what needs to be done, and do you think the federal government can force the governor to respond? i absolutely believe that the biden administration, the department of justice can stop fw greg abbott s barbarism. taken together these things are death traps, to place them in the river, and so the department of justice has given the state
of texas until monday to respond about how they re going to remove these things. if there is no response or the response is not satisfactory, then the federal government intends to go to court on tuesday to get those things removed. and we re looking at video of this that was taken on tuesday, eagle pass, texas. you can see the construction equipment and floating barriers in the rio grande. we re showing our viewers this right now. and i m just trying to get a sense of this, congressman. those are that s a texas project that s going on there. that has nothing to do, for our viewers to thunderstand this at home. this has nothing to do with the federal government. the the president of homeland security, they have i guess no linkage to that project, that is just purely the state of texas, governor greg abbott doing that? yeah, that s right. the governor this year, i think, has set aside billions of dollars. i think it s $5 billion for operation lone star.
the district court, the western district of texas, which is based in san antonio, i think greg abbott is going to lose. let me squeeze in a question about trump s actions surrounding the january 6th attack on the capitol, the mar-a-lago documents case. i was just talking to former federal prosecutor shan wu about this. the documents case has been scheduled for next may. in your mind, what happens if these cases get delayed to the point that they come after the 2024 election does that concern you? it absolutely does, and the reason it concerns me is because donald trump if he s somehow able to become president again, will do everything possible legal and illegal to try to not have to face the consequences for his actions, and that s incredible diy disturbing becau this is somebody who s already been indicted twice, on the verge of being indicted a third time, and i just i don t trust if he s elected president that he s going to let these
national guard members showed her handcuffs. i want to go back to the river because the woman says that the texas national guard members asked them to keep on walking on the waterment. later she says law enforcement and airboats started circling them on the water and the wake kept on knocking them over. eventually they were provided water, she said. the texas national guard has not responded to our request for comment regarding those specific allegations. overall, the texas national forward has denied allegations that they were given any orders not to give migrants water. the stories of these women come after a texas state trooper blew the whistle saying that there is the inhumane treatment of migrants here on the border. rosa flores, cnn, eagle pass. all right, let s continues this discussion, joining me now is democratic congressman joaquin castro of texas.
authority to protect its bo borders. obviously texas is not its own country. the united states maintains the borders of the united states. but have you gotten any indication from the white house, from the administration that they are going to take action on this? have there been conversations? i know you sent out this letter. but have there been conversations with the administration that are leading you to believe that, okay, they might do something. that something might be happening in that direction? i d spoken directly to the secretary of state last week when this story broke. my office has also reached out to the white house. i think right now it seems to me that the white house is going to let the the prdepartment of jus file for an injunction to stop this activity if it needs to. and i think ultimately, i think that the biden administration will be successful. the department of justice will be successful. bear in mind in the last few years, texas has lost twice when it comes to