The House Appropriations Committee passed House Bill 6 on Monday. If it becomes law, the bill would fund an estimated 50 miles of new barriers at the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border.
." was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.A state House committee approved a $1.5 billion proposal Monday that would allow Gov. Greg Abbott to continue his efforts to build border barriers along different parts of the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border.State Rep.
U.S. Border Patrol agents have had a historically high number of encounters with migrants on the southern border in recent years: 1.7 million in fiscal year 2021, a record topped the next year when agents recorded 2.2 million encounters. In fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30, the number dropped slightly to 2 million encounters.
"I can tell you that everywhere the U.S. government has put a wall and everywhere we have put up infrastructure, it has moved that traffic," Banks said. "The intent is to make Texas the least desirable place to cross illegally." David Stout, an El Paso County commissioner and the chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, a nonprofit organization made up of elected officials and business leaders from El Paso to Brownsville, said the additional $1.5 billion for barriers being debated by lawmakers could be spent on other things that border residents need such as better roads, health care and public education.
"The wall is not meant to be perfect but it does give us a fighting chance," said Morgan, who was also the Border Patrol’s chief during the Obama administration. "It puts us in the driver’s seat and increases our response to more effectively interdict bad things and bad people from coming into the U.S."
In recent years, more countries have built walls, fences or other types of barriers on their borders, according to a March 2022 report by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, D.C.
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