texas governor greg abbott set to make a major announcement in response to the ending title 42. critics say biden s move will make the chaotic situation at the border even worse. bill, what s the latest from where you are? well, john, texas governor greg abbott has sent the texas national guard to the border, sent thousands of state troopers to the border, started building a texas wall, but he will take significant further action in response to the biden administration decision to get rid of title 42 next month. and we ll show you what the data is dealing with in the meantime. take a look at the video, earlier today it shows a trooper
building its own border wall, the state of texas about how to do it, take a listen. what are the greatest safety threats to texas is a reckless and dangerous open border policies of president joe biden. our promise to do more than any governor never to secure our border and keep our communities safe. governor abbott s democratic opponent federal work to get a different approach. he said building a texas wall is a waste it s a waste of taxpayer dollars, the national guard should not be down here and he says governor abbott does not know what border communities want the border crisis a big deal in texas will shut up for the 2022 midterms when you look at the big national picture with republicans looking to capitalize on what they see as a failure at the border to president biden took office.
star to crack down and to support our federal partners. right now they re overwhelmed and their hands are tied. they re not able to do the job they want to. that is up on the border and trying to apprehend the individuals coming across. charles: it s admirable on the part of the state but this feels like a national crisis. is there any hope of getting any additional federal help? right now, charles, we re not seeing that. we don t expect that on the stateside. everything that we re deploying with operation lone star as far as technology and state funding, it s all from the state of texas, from our state leaders. we re not getting any type of support from the federal government. constructing the first ever border texas wall, that s state funds. that won t stop us doing what we re doing. we re continuing to move forward because we have dedicated men and women dedicated to this job and safeguarding texans. charles: make sure the men and women know we support them as well.
Nearly a year into President Biden's tenure, it's no secret that he and his administration have done the opposite of helping secure the United States' southern border. Federal authorities continue
we asked him if he paid them. i had to. how much? $3,000. and in rio grande city on saturday, texas governor greg abbott officially announced the beginning of construction of the texas border wall. it s the first time in country a state is building its own wall. people aren t making it through those steel bars. money while, after president biden canceled all federal wall construction, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of steel already paid for by u.s. taxpayers continues to sit unused at storage location in the rio grande valley. governor abbott says texas has reached out to the biden administration about potentially using or purchasing that steel for the texas wall, but says they have gotten no response. if they want to be responsible steward for taxpayer money, they should be providing that material either to the state of texas or to the contractors who are working with the state of texas. bret, earlier today we did reach out to the white house to ask them about a