Abbott to deploy choppers, National Guard Texas unit to ‘hotspots’ in effort to combat illegal immigration

Troops loaded onto Black Hawk helicopters and C-130S Monday to deploy to “hotspots” along the border in order to “intercept, to repel, and to turn back” migrants who look to enter Texas illegally, according to Abbott.“Texas is the only state to build its own border wall and I’m the only governor to ever have designated the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. With all that said, today we are announcing even more to respond to Joe Biden’s reckless open border policies,” Abbott said.

“In addition to that, they have arrested about 27,000 dangerous criminals, including cartel gang members who were wanted for crimes like murder, getting them off the streets to make sure they would not harm anybody in Texas or the United States,” Abbott said.Abbott said border officials have seized fentanyl in amounts that could kill every man, woman and child in the U.S.

“Had it not been for the National Guard troops and the Texas Department of Public Safety officers and troopers, we would have on the streets of the United States that deadly fentanyl. It’s unknown how many Americans would have died because of that,” Abbott said. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 14,699 pounds of fentanyl were seized last fiscal year and so far, 13,891 pounds were seized this fiscal year.

Abbott said officers and troops have also been bussing migrants from cities like Del Rio and Eagle Pass to Chicago and New York. He believes “many thousands more” will be bussed in the coming days due to the massive influx of illegal migrants coming across the border.

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