Gov. Abbott announces Texas will fund its own wall for Mexico border
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 6:13 PM PT – Thursday, June 10, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has announced his state will complete
President Trump’s border wall with its own funding. At the border summit
in Del Rio, Texas on Thursday, Abbott said barriers will be installed
along the Rio Grande River in areas with the largest presence of illegal
aliens.
The state wall comes as part of the $1 billion budget allocated for
border security by the Texas legislature. Texas saw a 700 percent
increase in illegal border crossings this year amid the Biden border
crisis.
Abbott said the border fence will be managed by Texas authorities,
which would allow state law enforcement to detain and deport illegals.
“The ability to arrest will be enhanced by building border barriers.
Some of these border barriers will be built immediately,” he declared.
“Whenever anybody tries to modify, attempt, or get through these any of
these border barriers, that itself is a crime for which they can be
arrested.”
Abbott went on to say the Biden administration has failed to protect
U.S. border security and individual states must now take the matter into
their own hands.
