Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has promised many things about protecting Texas and the rest of The United States of America from Mexicans illegally crossing the southern border. Has he kept his word?
Deploy the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to arrest and return to the border immigrants who crossed illegally and deploy DPS to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity.
September 21, 2022 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
Governor Greg Abbott today issued an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations and instructing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to take immediate action to keep Texans safe amid the growing national fentanyl crisis. At a roundtable discussion and press conference in Midland today, the Governor also sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris requesting federal terrorist classifications for the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as well as other cartels producing and distributing deadly fentanyl.
Build a border wall in multiple counties on the border.
December 18, 2021 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
Governor Greg Abbott today held a press conference debuting the construction of the Texas border wall in Rio Grande City — just six months after he announced Texas would build its own border wall. The press conference took place in front of the first phase of the wall being built on state land managed by the Texas General Land Office (GLO).
Deploy gun boats to secure the border.
“Texas DPS gunboats entering the fray of the Biden Border Crisis. Those are four 3.08 cal full auto machine guns to deter cartel trouble-makers,” reported Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, on Wednesday.
Designate Mexican Cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
September 21, 2022 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
Governor Greg Abbott today issued an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations
Enter into a compact with other states to secure the border.
SB1254, the Interstate Compact for Border Security was filed by Senator Bob Hall
Enter into agreements with foreign powers to enhance border security.
Texas Works Around Biden to Get Border Security Agreements With Three Mexican States
Provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the border invasion.
Governor Abbott Announces Additional $30 Million In Grants To Boost Local Border Security Efforts
July 6, 2022 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that his Public Safety Office (PSO) is providing an additional $30 million in Operation Lone Star (OLS) grant funding for Texas cities and counties to enhance border security operations, including funding to help deter and interdict criminal activity related to the border crisis.
10 for 10, yet even after taking all these actions, the border crisis continues to escalate beyond Texas’s ability to stop. The State of Texas has spent more than 4 billion dollars on border security in the last year alone. All without any help from the Biden administration. The problem is real, the problem is now, and the problem is obvious. The Biden Administration is ignoring this problem for some kind of political gain. The border security issue isn’t a political issue, it is an issue of National Security. With the stroke of a pen President Biden could halt this crisis in a humanitarian way, yet he clearly does not wish to.
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