January witnessed a decrease in migrant encounters along the Texas border, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealing a substantial reduction from previous months. Abbott’s Approach Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has led Texas to the forefront of the U.S.-Mexico border conflict over the past year and a half, responding to apparent inaction by […]
After the highly anticipated bipartisan border deal was revealed, conservatives reacted to the part that would reportedly strip Texas of its border security powers. Even before its official release, Governor Abbott announced that the Texas National Guard would continue to expand security efforts. What’s in the bill The bipartisan bill gives power to the President […]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed in a Wednesday news conference that the 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at a South Texas elementary school shared his plans on Facebook. The gunman, Salvador Ramos, posted a series of Facebook messages about 30 minutes before the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Ramos was killed by police after barricading himself inside one of the school's classrooms. According to Abbott, the first post read: "I'm going to shoot my grandmother." He followed the post up with, "I shot my grandmother," and, "I'm going to shoot an elementary school." Abbott said that Ramos gave "no meaningful forewarning" of the violence he intended to unleash except for the Facebook messages. Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta the parent company of Facebook – said in a tweet that the warnings were sent in private one-to-one text messages that were found after the shooting. Facebook is