The footage showed gunmen standing on the Margaret McDermott Bridge, just west of downtown Dallas, firing weapons into the air as traffic passed below.
“This Afghan national came into America during the Biden administration and as alleged, explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill American citizens."
“There is overwhelming evidence — both direct and circumstantial — of partisan objectives, and any inference that the State inexplicably chose to use racial means is implausible."
In a formal proclamation, Abbott designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations as both a “foreign terrorist organization” and a “transnational criminal organization.”
Federal prosecutors say the group targeted the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, a facility housing illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.