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Texas Governor Taking Action To Secure Southern Border

The Biden Administration has invested BILLIONS of American taxpayer money to defend foreign nations while completely failing to protect our own borders. Today Texas Governor Abbott signed executive order No. GA-41, “to secure the border in the wake of the federal government’s inaction.”

-JD


July 7, 2022 | Gov.Texas.gov | Read the Governor’s executive order here

Governor Abbott has taken significant action to secure the border in the wake of the federal government’s inaction. Those actions include:

  • Securing $4 billion in funding for Texas’ border security efforts
  • Launching Operation Lone Star and deploying thousands of National Guard soldiers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers
  • Arresting and jailing criminals trespassing or committing other state crimes along the southern border
  • Allocating resources that include acquiring 1,700 unused steel panels to build the border wall in Texas
  • Signing a law to make it easier to prosecute smugglers bringing people into Texas
  • Signing 15 laws cracking down on human trafficking in Texas
  • Signing a law enhancing penalties for the manufacturing and distribution of fentanyl
  • Issuing a disaster declaration for the border crisis
  • Issuing an executive order preventing non-governmental entities from transporting illegal immigrants
  • Taking aggressive action to secure the border as President Biden ends Title 42 expulsions, including busing migrants to Washington, D.C.
  • Signing memoranda of understanding between the State of Texas and the States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to enhance border security measures that will prevent illegal immigration from Mexico to Texas
  • Activating the Joint Border Security Operations Center (JBSOC) and directing the Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Military Department, and Texas Division of Emergency Management to coordinate Texas’ response to secure the border
  • Creating DPS strike teams and establishing new vehicle inspection checkpoints targeting semi-truck.

 

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An Invasion On The Border_Texas Scorecard

Brandon Waltens is joined by Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith to talk about the new push by border counties to declares the crisis act the southern border an invasion, and what steps the governor can take to secure it.

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