Texas Governor Greg Abbott is going into more detail about how Texas is fighting the Biden-Harris border crisis.
Texas’ border security efforts have decreased illegal crossings into the state by 85%, while it has increased in other border states like Arizona and California. Governor Abbott mentioned that Texas will expand our razor wire barriers even further to continue to deny illegal crossings into the state. The state has tripled the amount of razor wire to fight the flow of illegals into the Lone Star State.
Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 517,900 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 46,000 criminal arrests, with more than 39,900 felony charges. In the fight against the fentanyl crisis, Texas law enforcement has seized over 518 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States and Mexico combined during this border mission.
Texas has also transported:
- Over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C. since April 2022
- Over 45,900 migrants to New York City since August 2022
- Over 36,900 migrants to Chicago since August 2022
- Over 3,400 migrants to Philadelphia since November 2022
- Over 19,200 migrants to Denver since May 2023
- Over 1,500 migrants to Los Angeles since June 2023