TEXAS LT. GOV. DAN PATRICK: Arizona tried this [border security reform] about 10 years ago. But our law is different. It simply says that our law enforcement can arrest anyone, take them in, do a background check, photograph, do fingerprints. If they saw them cross the border illegally, we can do that, or if they happen to reveal in the arrest stop that they crossed illegally, and then the magistrate will send them back and will escort them to the border. And they have a choice. They go to jail or they can go back.

And if they go back and dry to come back again and we rearrest them again, the penalty gets even higher. We are fed up.

In fact, seeing what happened in Colorado, Laura makes me think, except we believe in democracy in Texas. Maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing 8 million people to cross the border since he has been president. Disrupting our state far more than anything anyone else has done in recent history.

And so, this is so outrageous. 10,000, 12,000, 14,000 people a day crossing the border. Eight million people since he’s been in office. Enough to be the 12th largest state, it’s incredible.