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Texas Gov. Abbott asks government to reimburse $11B spent on border security

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, returns the state of more than 11.1 billion dollars to the federal government's funds, which was spent to secure a tropical border during the former President Joe Biden. I am demanding.

Abbott sent a letter to a member of the US Congress on Thursday, saying that the Biden administration's “refusal to work for the past four years” brought a crisis on the southern border.

“President Biden's policy is Texas and other American policies for the unprecedented intrusion of violent criminals, known terrorists, and other hostile foreigners, like dangerous Venezuela's Gang Tren Aragua. The governor wrote, “wrote the governor.

The Republican members of the Republican Party will introduce a bill to get billions of dollars to secure borders.

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, asked the federal government to refund the money of more than 11 billion dollar taxpayers spending on border security over the past four years. (Reuters/Charahan OHair)

In response to the lack of action on the federal border, Abbott began operations in March 2021 in 2021, when the Texas Security Corps and the Texas public safety bureaus were deployed on the US Mexico border.

According to Abbott, Lone Star has added 87 % of illegal immigrants to Texas in the past four years, and his efforts have been a national spotlight in crisis.

The governor brought the arrest of more than 500,000 illegal immigrants, suspended more than 140,000 illegal attempts to enter the United States, arrested more than 50,000 criminal arrests, and the death of more than 5 billion. He explained that he seized Fentanyl. The border barriers of more than 240 miles have been built and established the only national guards base along the Texas Mexican border.

“In short, Texas has refused by the federal government and has stepped up all Americans from the dangerous policy of President Biden,” said Abbot.

The Republican Republican members will update a push to refund Texas for the “Operation Loan Star” border security push

He is proud of this strategy, but Abbot said that his success had a high price tag of more than $ 11.1 billion.

In a cost -decomposition document, Abbot said before the Biden administration, Texas spent about $ 800 million every two years to make up for the federal efforts on the border.

Illegal immigration across US-Mexico borders

In March 2024, illegal immigrants pass through the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, and pass the coil of Kamisori's wire. The wire was placed by the army as part of the Operation Loanstar of Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas. To Texas. (John Moore/Getty Image)

“The burden of our state is the direct result of refusal to work by the federal government,” says Abbot. “The work that Texas did through the Loanstar Operation is protected, and will continue to make profits throughout the country.”

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The Republican Republican members have introduced a bill in the past that Texas would refund billions of border security, but the law has not been passed.

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