Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that his state will immediately begin building its own border barriers in areas where migrants can easily cross the Rio Grande border with Mexico.
Abbot said construction of border barriers will begin immediately in areas like Del Rio, where migrants can easily cross unsecured sections. The Del Rio area has seen massive increases in illegal border crossings this year. In May, agents apprehended 27,890 migrants illegally crossing the border there, an increase of 1,118 percent over the numbers in May 2020.
“The reason why we are here is because of the massive increase,” Abbot explained. He said the Del Rio sector “is suffering from some of the largest increases. They’re seeing a lot of very bad dangerous people come across the border. People that they are afraid of encountering, people who are causing damage to their fences, their livestock, their crops, their neighborhoods, and their homes.”
Abbot said the barriers will serve two functions. First, they will provide physical deterrence. Second, anyone interfering with the barriers will “have committed several crimes,” among them criminal mischief, vandalism of state property or local government property, and criminal trespass.
“If you come to Texas, ” Abbot warned would-be migrants, “you’re subject to being arrested. You’re not going to have a pathway to roam the country. You’re going to have a pathway directly into a jail cell.”
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