On Monday morning, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) held a press conference at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to share details about the unprecedented action Texas is taking to address the expected surge of illegal immigrants once Title 42 ends.
The Biden administration anticipates that approximately 13,000 illegal aliens will cross the border every day once Title 42 ends.
In response to Joe Biden’s ongoing border crisis, Gov. Abbott announced Texas will deploy the new Texas Tactical Border Force, made up of elite National Guard members who are specifically trained to identify areas where illegal immigrants are crossing and to intercept, repel and deny them access into the United States.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a new Texas Tactical Border Force ahead of the expiration of the Title 42 public health order, which helped block migrants from entering the U.S.
In response to “Joe Biden’s reckless border policies,” the Texas National Guard is loading Black Hawk helicopters and C-130s, deploying specially trained national guard members to “hotspots along the border to intercept, to repel and to turn back migrants who are trying to enter Texas illegally,” Abbott said at a press conference from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
In a statement, the Texas National Guard said it activated 545 more service members at locations around the state Monday to “reinforce the border mission in anticipation of the end of Title 42 immigration restrictions.”
“These additional forces will bolster the thousands of Texas National Guard service members already assisting local and state law enforcement agencies to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal behavior between the ports of entry,” the Texas National Guard said in a statement Monday. “We have expanded our capabilities to include boat teams that patrol hundreds of river miles, drones and helicopters that detect illicit activity from the air, and brush teams, security points and roving patrols that block and interdict illegal smuggling (drugs, weapons and people) into Texas.”
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“President Biden is laying down a welcome mat to people across the entire world saying that the United States border is wide open, and it will lead to an incredible amount of people coming across the border illegally. President Biden’s open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster in the United States,” Abbott said.
“According to the Biden administration itself, they anticipate about 13,000 people coming across the border illegally, every single day,” the governor added. “If you extend that out over the course of a year, it means it will be about 4,700,000 people coming across the border a year. That will mean there will be more people coming across the border illegally than there are residents of the massive city of Chicago.”
The Texas Tactical Border Force is meant to bolster Operation Lone Star, which Abbott said has already turned back 37,000 people who already came across the border illegally, arrested about 27,000 dangerous criminals, including “cartel gang members” who are wanted for crimes like murder, and seized “enough fentanyl that would have been enough to kill every man, woman and child in the United States.”
The move by Abbott comes after the Biden administration announced it is sending 1,500 active-duty troops to the border, not to stop the illegals from crossing, but “to supplement” Border Patrol agents as they process the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who are expected to invade the U.S.
Last week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blatantly lied to the American people, saying that illegal migration has come down by more than 90% due to Biden’s policies.
Meanwhile Texas looks like a 3rd world country ahead of the massive surge of illegal immigrants expected to cross into the U.S. as soon as Title 42 ends.
