Yawn, stretch... Until Abbott actually begins deporting any illegals in Texas, this is all saber rattling and political posturing.

Step up to the plate, Abbott. It feels good to put Americans first.

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Gov. Greg Abbott this week issued an order restricting ground transportation of migrants who could have COVID-19, a move Attorney General Merrick Garland said violates federal law.

Updated 5:16 p.m. CT

The Biden administration has sued Texas over the governor's executive order restricting ground transportation of migrants, and directing the Texas Department of Public Safety to stop any vehicle it finds suspicious.

The federal lawsuit accuses Texas of violating the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, after Gov. Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA-37 on Wednesday. The order restricts the transportation of detained migrants in Texas to only local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. It also allows law enforcement to stop any vehicle upon “reasonable suspicion” of violating the order, and reroute or impound those vehicles.

In the suit, filed in Texas’ Western District in El Paso, the U.S. government says federal agencies rely on private contractors to provide transportation of noncitizens under immigration law, and that blocking that transportation would disrupt government functions.

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking for an injunction against the state to block Abbott’s order, and to declare it invalid under the Supremacy Clause, which says that federal law supersedes state laws.

In a statement released after the lawsuit was filed, Abbott called the suit a “constitutional crisis.”

“Until President Biden and his Administration do their jobs to enforce the laws of our nation and protect Americans, the State of Texas will continue to step up to protect our communities and uphold the rule of law,” Abbott said.