Gov. Abbott pledges to finish Trump’s border wall and use state troopers to arrest migrants. If they don’t stop this soon, they’ll soon be having the Battle of the Alamo again.
Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday said Texas state troopers will now begin arresting migrants crossing the southern border — a move that immigration experts say is legally dubious — and that the state will also pick up where former President Donald Trump left off building the border wall.
“Long term, only Congress and the president can fix our broken border. But in the meantime, Texas is going to do everything possible, including beginning to make arrests, to keep our communities safe,” Abbott said at an event billed as a border security summit in Del Rio. “We are going to do everything we can to secure the border and it begins immediately.”
