Abbott: We're Building More Border Wall Than Trump

“Texas is the first and only state in the history of the United States of America to build our own border wall,” said Abbott. “If you look at the amount of wall already constructed and the amount of wall that is going to be under construction, Texas will have built more of the Trump border wall than even Trump built in the state of Texas.” ...

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Abbott said that in the last period of about a year and a half, the number of illegal border crossings in Texas has dropped to less than one-third of total crossings in the United States, despite Texas covering two-thirds of the physical border with Mexico. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has arrested over 39,000 criminal illegal aliens, stopped 95,000 attempted illegal entries, and apprehended over 480,000 illegals.

“The results are amazing,” Abbott continued. “Now, unlike before, migrants are choosing to go to states other than Texas and that’s because Texas has put up the resistance that it has. Early on in the Biden administration, most of the migrants were coming through Texas. That’s [no longer] true.”

Ed Morrissey

Isn't it interesting what you can do when you actually do something? In fairness, Doug Ducey built a border barrier in Arizona too, using old shipping containers, but those got dismantled by Katie Hobbs. 

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