Forward of assembly with Trump, Texas Gov. Abbott blasts Biden’s immigration insurance policies as VP Harris publicizes first border go to

Texas Governor Greg Abbott condemned President Joe Biden’s immigration insurance policies as “reckless” simply days earlier than Vice President Kamala Harris is ready to go to the border, blaming the administration for a spike in unlawful migration.

With Harris’ journey set for later this week, Abbott issued an announcement on Wednesday preempting the go to, saying the White Home’s “open border insurance policies” are permitting Texas to be “overrun” by “gangs and smugglers.”

“The vp was named Border Czar over 90 days in the past, and in that point Texans have had their houses damaged into, property broken, and weapons pointed at their heads as cartels, smugglers, and human traffickers revenue off the Biden administration’s reckless open-border insurance policies,” the Republican governor mentioned, accusing Harris of “ignoring the actual downside areas alongside our southern border.”

She’s going to fail in her mission if she refuses to talk to residents of the Del Rio sector whose houses and ranches are being overrun by gangs and smugglers.

VP Harris is ignoring the issue areas on our southern border which are being overrun by Biden's reckless open border insurance policies.

Since March, @TxDPS has arrested over 1.7k criminals & seized sufficient fentanyl to kill over 21M individuals.

TX continues to step as much as safe the border. pic.twitter.com/xa3xAzSrMV

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 23, 2021

A spokesperson for the VP mentioned she would head to El Paso, Texas on Friday. Whereas that will mark her first go to to the border, the Harris staffer famous that she visited Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month to “handle the foundation causes of migration” into the US, amid what Biden’s Homeland Safety chief dubbed a 20-year excessive in immigration on the southern border.

The governor’s feedback additionally come days earlier than a deliberate border tour with former President Donald Trump on June 30. In accepting Abbott’s invitation final week, the ex-POTUS mentioned Biden had turned the border into an “unmitigated catastrophe zone” and created the “single worst border disaster in US historical past.”

Abbott has additionally repeatedly slammed Biden’s immigration insurance policies, which have aimed to reverse various restrictions imposed underneath the Trump administration. In March, the governor launched ‘Operation Lone Star’ alongside the Texas Division of Public Security (DPS), saying it might fight a surge in human and drug trafficking into the state whereas blaming the president for the border “disaster.”

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As of Wednesday, Abbott mentioned the operation had made 1,700 prison arrests, apprehended greater than 41,000 unlawful migrants and “seized sufficient fentanyl to kill over 21 million individuals,” referring to a robust artificial opioid incessantly concerned in drug overdoses.

Aside from Operation Lone Star, final week Abbott additionally declared that Texas will construct its personal border wall, making an attempt to make good on a key marketing campaign promise from former President Donald Trump. Whereas the earlier administration was solely in a position to full round 450 miles of the wall, most of which changed present boundaries alongside the two,000-mile border, Abbott has vowed to see the mission by way of, devoting $ 250 million in state funds as a “down cost.” In the meantime, personal fundraising has already introduced in additional than $ 450,000.  

Abbott laid the groundwork for the Texas wall with a Could 31 catastrophe declaration, which cited emergencies in dozens of counties alongside the border whereas noting that the “ongoing surge of people unlawfully crossing the Texas-Mexico border” poses an “imminent risk” to the state. Whereas sometimes reserved for pure disasters, the declaration allowed Abbott to request state funds for the brand new border wall, finally securing $ 250 million for that goal. 

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