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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott believes that there’s an “invasion” happening on the southern border pushed by cartels and exacerbated by White Home insurance policies.
Abbott mentioned in an unique interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” that the “unprecedented” and “overwhelming” scenario is a results of President Biden eliminating all of the insurance policies former President Trump put in place.
The Republican governor made the argument 5 days after a number of counties in his state declared the disaster on the southern border an “invasion” and referred to as on the governor to do the identical, arguing that it could give the state extra energy to ship unlawful immigrants to Mexico.
“These counties are coping with one thing that is fully unprecedented,” Abbott mentioned on Sunday, noting that “it was simply two years in the past we had the bottom variety of folks coming throughout the border and apprehensions underneath President Trump.”
“After which President Biden took over and eradicated the entire insurance policies that President Trump put in place, and it has led to this unprecedented, overwhelming variety of folks coming throughout the border,” he went on to emphasize.
Abbott’s feedback come at a time of historic migrant encounters on the border. There have been greater than 239,000 migrant encounters in Might, and Abbott mentioned that there have been 1000’s of migrant apprehensions in Texas alone over Independence Day weekend.
“There is a report variety of folks coming throughout the border from greater than 150 completely different international locations throughout your entire globe,” Abbott instructed host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “We’re seeing over the Fourth of July, for instance, in simply the Del Rio sector, which is just one of 5 sectors within the state of Texas, there have been about 5,000 folks both apprehended or who had been ‘gotaways.’”
Abbott spoke with Bartiromo three days after he signed an govt order that enables the Texas Nationwide Guard and the Texas Division of Public Security (DPS) to apprehend and return unlawful immigrants who’ve crossed between ports of entry to the southern border, though not into Mexico…. (Read more)