Continue in washington over border security. Heres Abc Zohreen shah. Reporter tonight, Texas Governor Greg abbott defending these controversial comments he made about migrants on a conservative radio show. We are deploying every Tool And Strategy that we possibly can. The only thing that we are not doing is were not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the biden administration would charge us with murder. Reporter after backlash, the governor now attempting to clarify. I explained in detail all the different things that texas is doing that we have the legal authority to do, and pointed out what would be illegal to do. Reporter abbott also under fire for taking control of shelby park, where migrants were camping along the border in eagle pass. The mayor capturing these moments. This is not something that we wanted. Reporter migrant encounters along the southwest border in december reached an alltime high, 302,000, sources tell abc news, with lawmakers in washington still trying to strike an immigration deal. And as mayors nationwide combat