Global Courant 2023-05-07 20:01:42
Texas Governor Greg Abbott denounced President Biden’s move to send 1,500 troops to the southern border, saying the president is sending soldiers to fill out paperwork and not enough to realistically secure the border.
The Republican governor appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to address the chaos at the US-Mexico border in the run-up to the expiration of the pandemic-era Title 42 policy, allowing US officials to detain tens of thousands of migrants crossing the southern border. to refuse.
“It wasn’t until Biden came in and scrapped all those (Trump-era) policies and laid out a welcome mat for the whole world that the border is now open that suddenly we have the chaos that is solely caused by Joe Biden’s policies. Abbott said.
The governor denounced Biden’s decision to move troops as “a day late and tens of thousands of soldiers short.”
BIDEN DEFENSES TROPPS TO THE BORDER: ‘THEY NEED MORE AGENTS’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott slammed the Biden administration’s border policies for rolling out the “welcome mat” to the world and creating chaos at the southern border as migrants continue to pour into the US (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; USA Today network via Reuters Connect)
“President Trump sent soldiers to the border to secure the border,” Abbott said. “President Biden is sending 1,500 good soldiers to do paperwork. That’s not going to secure the border. We need 15,000 or 150,000 to secure the border because of the Biden administration’s open border policy.”
To deal with the wave of migrants, the Biden administration is sending 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to handle data entry, warehouse support and other administrative tasks, allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to focus on fieldwork, White House officials have said.
The troops “will not perform any law enforcement functions or interact with immigrants or migrants,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “This will free up Border Patrol agents to perform their critical law enforcement duties.”
BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION APPROVES SENDING 1,500 US TROOPS TO MEXICO’S BORDER AS TITLE 42 SHOWS DEADLINE: SOURCES
US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas visited the Rio Grande Valley last week and said the situation at the border was “very serious” and “very challenging”, while reiterating that the “border is not open”.
“The border is not open, it has not been open and will not open after May 11,” he said.
Title 42 expires May 11.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
