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Texas Greg Abbott governor He is requesting that the federal government reheat over its state more than $ 11.1 billion for the money of taxpayers spent in ensuring the southern border during the administration of former President Joe Biden.
ABBOTT, who sent letters to the members of the United States Congress on Thursday, said that the “administration refusal biden to do their job for the last four years” resulted in the crisis on the southern border that has spilled the rest of the country.
“President Biden’s policies left Texas and the rest of the United States defenselessly against an unprecedented infiltration of violent criminals, known terrorists and other hostile foreign actors, such as the dangerous Venezuelan gang Train of Aragua,” wrote the governor.
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has asked the Federal Government to reimburse the more than $ 11 billion of taxpayers who has spent on border security in the last four years. (Reuters/Callaghan O’Hare)
In response to the lack of federal government at the border, Abbott took the matter in his own hands and launched the operation Lone Star in March 2021, which deployed the Texas National Guard and the Texas Public Security Department of Public Security to the Border between the United States and Mexico.
Operation Lone Star has reduced illegal immigration In Texas in 87% in the last four years, which demonstrates the “effectiveness of the border measures of President Donald Trump,” according to Abbott, who added that his efforts have given a focus of national attention to the crisis.
The governor described that the operation has also resulted in the apprehension of more than half a million illegal immigrants, arrested more than 140,000 illegal attempts to enter the United States, made more than 50,000 criminal arrests, seized more than half a billion. lethal doses of fentanyl, He built more than 240 miles of border barriers and established the only base of the National Guard along the border of Texas-Mexico.
“In summary, Texas took a step forward where the federal government refused and in doing so, protected all Americans from the dangerous policies of President Biden,” Abbott wrote.
Although it is proud of the operation, Abbott said that its success came with a high price of more than $ 11.1 billion, which has been, and remains, paid by Texas taxpayers when “it should have been the responsibility of the federal government” .
In a document that broke off the costs, Abbott said that before the Biden administration, the state of Texas spent approximately $ 800 million every two years to complement federal efforts on the border.
Illegal immigrants pass through razor wire coils while crossing the border between the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas, in March 2024. The troops placed the cable as part of the “Lone Star operation” of the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott to deter migrants crossing to cross in Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
“The burden that our State has led is the direct result of a rejection of the federal government to do its job,” Abbott wrote. “The work that Texas has done through Operation Lone Star has protected and will continue to benefit the entire country.”
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Republicans of the House of Representatives have introduced bills in the past requesting that Texas be reimbursed by the mastered millions on border security, But the legislation has never been approved.
