Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he directed hundreds of state Department of Public Safety vehicles to create a “steel wall” to block illegal immigrants—mostly Haitians—from crossing into the United States.
During an interview with Fox News, the Republican governor said the vehicle wall prevented people from illegally “walking into the state of Texas.”
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers secured the Del Rio sector of the southern border.
We’re doing Biden’s job for him.
I’m headed to Del Rio today.
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— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 21, 2021
In photos taken at the scene in Del Rio, thousands of Haitians can be seen congregating under a bridge, and a significant number of DPS vehicles are parked along a road near a waterway. The wall of vehicles, Abbott said, prevented illegal aliens from crossing a dam into Texas.
“The Texas Department of Public Safety stepped up,” he said, adding that if President Joe Biden followed a judge’s order to reimplement the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” protocols, there wouldn’t be “chaos” in Del Rio.
“Because the Biden administration has been promoting and allowing open border policies, it has been the state of Texas that had to step up,” Abbott said Tuesday during a Del Rio news conference with local officials, including Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano.
Abbott has long championed the construction of a border wall in Texas, which was a top priority of former President Donald Trump. The governor has attempted to gain funding and approval from private landowners to construct a state-backed border wall in Texas.
Biden, meanwhile, has faced significant criticism from Republicans and some Democrats whose districts lie along the border for dozens of immigration-related orders, including one that suspended the construction of the physical border wall. The president has described it as ineffective and a waste of money.
The White House, in the midst of the surge of Haitian illegal immigrants, has attempted to pivot away from the burgeoning crisis by focusing on photos of Border Patrol agents on horseback apprehending people who illegally crossed the border.
This is an excerpt from The Epoch Times.
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