KENTUCKY — On this week’s In Focus Kentucky program, we’re sitting down with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, R-Ky.

Earlier in February, the Republican announced that he recently joined a 27-state coalition supporting Texas’ border defense in a letter to the Biden administration.

In January, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision stating the federal government could remove razor wire Texas placed to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants into their state, given the Administration’s complete lack of action on the invasion. However, the Supreme Court ruling did not say Texas couldn’t continue to install razor wire in new locations, or replace or repair those same removed barriers, or that Texas was wrong to place them in defense of their state sovereignty.

As a result, Attorney General Coleman and 26 other attorneys general from around the country issued a letter to President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas encouraging the administration to enforce immigration laws.

“We are a Southwest border state because all of the poison is pouring into this Commonwealth. That resulted in those almost 2200 deaths last year. It’s decimating families. That is destroying the fabric of many of our communities. All that poison came from over a porous southwest border...The federal government has abrogated its duty to the states to defend the states from invasion, that the state of Texas has the ability under our Constitution, federal Constitution to act to defend itself. And I strongly support that position because ultimately, we are a border state ultimately. Until this administration secures our Southwest border, our law enforcement or we’re going to be vigorous going after traffickers,” said Coleman.

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