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Cross-border politics: Why some Texas Republicans are sparring with Mexico's president

The heated rhetoric allows the politicians on both sides to score points, but it could get in the way of solving problems, a border affairs expert says.

Portrait of John C. Moritz John C. Moritz
El Paso Times
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AUSTIN — One Texas congressman challenged the president of Mexico to a "skirmish" on the battlefield where Texas won its independence 187 years ago.

Another accused the Mexican president of "defending" the transnational drug traffickers, and filed legislation that would authorize sending the U.S. military into Mexico to hunt down the dealers.

And a spokesman for Gov. Greg Abbott suggested Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bears responsibility for fentanyl being smuggled across the border that "is endangering the lives of millions of Americans."