AGs Push Back Against ‘Absurd Effort’ to Thwart Border Security Efforts in Texas

The U.S.-Mexico border wall in El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 10, 2019. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The attorney generals of Texas and Missouri are pushing back against what they say is another attempt by the Biden administration to thwart border security efforts in Texas, this time through the Endangered Species Act.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the prostrate milkweed (Asclepias prostrata), a wildflower, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. It’s also proposed designating 691.3 acres in two Texas border counties, Starr and Zapata, as critical habitat for the milkweed under the Act.