Governor Greg Abbott says Texas has taken steps to keep the border secure despite "the failed border policies of the Biden Administration." Abbott was speaking at the Denton County Mayors Crime Prevention Luncheon.
"This is, by far, unequivocally, 'uncomparatively', the worst border chaos crisis we've ever had in the history of the United States of America," Abbott said.
In the fiscal year ending in October 2021, Customs and Border Protection detained 1.7 million people crossing the border illegally, marking the highest number ever. Abbott says detainees included people from 150 countries.
"There's 930,000 people living in Denton County. So, two Denton Counties came across the border this past year illegally," he says. "These weren't people coming here from Mexico looking for a better paying job."
Abbott also says law enforcement at the border has seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in Texas, California, New York, Florida and Illinois combined.
"This is a drug that typically is made in China and typically is brought across the Mexico border into the United States, and it poses a deadly, dangerous situation," Abbott says.
Abbott is running for his third term as governor. The conference in Corinth was not a campaign event, but Abbott has said he would make 60 campaign stops before the primary March 1. He faces seven other Republicans for the nomination.
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