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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Justice Department sues Texas over a floating barrier in the Rio Grande.

As the teamsters and UPS cut a deal to avoid an impending strike that could have harmed the economy,

welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues

and a Toro Board member, Maneu Uquay-Buruah and columnist Bill McGurne.

On Monday, the Justice Department sued the state of Texas over the installation of a floating

barrier in the Rio Grande River meant to stop people from crossing into Texas from Mexico.

Let's start with a clip of Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Fox News on Monday explaining what

this floating barrier does and why he doesn't think it's a violation of the law.

These devices have turned away and repelled tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of

people who try to enter into the United States illegally. It is in the public interest for the

state of Texas to be safeguarding and securing our border from people entering the United States illegally.

For another, we believe that statute does not apply in any way because what state of Texas is doing

through those buoys is not in violation of that statute. Maneu, what do you make of this argument

and who's got the better legal end of it? Well, it's an interesting question because we just heard

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, make an argument for the barriers on the merits saying that

they're deterrent to legal migrants crossing the border and also make an argument for the barriers

on the legal merits, basically saying that they are into violation of federal immigration law.

And I think his first argument is quite strong and his second one is pretty weak. So in terms of

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