Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is sending 400 troopers and a few helicopters to the border to enhance President Trump’s federal efforts to safe the border.
Abbott’s workplace in a Monday launch mentioned he advised the Texas Navy Division “to deploy the Texas Tactical Border Force to the Rio Grande Valley” for the aim of working with Trump’s administration on border safety.
The Texas Tactical Border Power is about to move out Monday from navy bases in Fort Value and Houston. It is going to ship C-130s and Chinook helicopters, together with a minimum of 400 troopers “to join thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers already deployed on the border to collaborate with U.S. Border Patrol agents on the border,” the discharge mentioned.
“Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the Texas-Mexico border,” Abbott mentioned within the launch. “To assist that mission, right now, I deployed the Texas Tactical Border Power, comprised of lots of of troops, to work side-by-side with U.S. Border Patrol brokers to cease unlawful immigrants from getting into our nation and to implement immigration legal guidelines.”
“For the past four years, Texas held the line against the Biden Administration’s border crisis and their refusal to protect Americans,” he added. “Finally, we have a federal government working to end this crisis. I thank President Donald Trump for his decisive leadership on the southern border and look forward to working with him and his Administration to secure the border and make America safe again.”
Trump made the problem of immigration central to his 2024 presidential marketing campaign, and his administration has taken quite a few steps to vary immigration and border insurance policies instantly.
Trump additionally vowed to undertake mass deportations as soon as elected. Final Friday, a White Home spokesperson mentioned the administration had began navy flights to remove people who find themselves within the nation illegally.
“Deportation flights have begun,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned on the social platform X. “President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.”
The Hill has reached out to former President Biden for remark.
