Gov. Abbott said his border operation was never about finding illegal drugs or migrants but about keeping roads safe. That’s despite Abbott saying several times the operation was a direct response to what he called President Biden’s open-border policies.
During a roundtable discussion with border business leaders in El Paso Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott defended a costly bridge slowdown he implemented earlier this year and said the wait times they created were “minuscule.”
Abbott also said that the operation was never about finding illegal drugs or migrants but instead about keeping state roadways safe. That’s despite Abbott saying several times the operation was a direct response to what he called President Biden’s open-border policies.
“It’s essential that the Biden administration finally step up and start doing something, waking up to the reality that under his watch over the past year alone more than 2 million people have come across the border illegally,” he said. “We’re also seeing a record amount of fentanyl coming across the border. What we’re trying to do is address all of these challenges.”
The shutdown lasted a little more than a week and ended after Abbott met with the governors of the four Mexican states that border Texas. The Mexican leaders signed agreements to bolster security on their side of the border, and Abbott said at the time the inspections were implemented to, in part, thwart smuggling.
“The historic MOUs signed with Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas come after Governor Abbott
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