a pretty easy time coming right into our country. texas lawmakers say they were tired of waiting for the federal government to act, so they facebook matters into their own took matters into their own hands. bill melugin is live in rio grande city, texas, with more on all of this. bill, to you. reporter: molly, good evening to you. what s happening here today is historic. never before in the history of the country has a state built its own border wall. now it s happening here in texas. take a live look at our fox drone right now, you ll see some of the first panels that have gone up here. this is rio grande city, right in the middle of the rio grande valley here in texas, one of the busiest spots along the u.s./members ecoboard mexico border. you take a look at this wall, you re going to see the crane here, texas flag on top of it. this is a texas-built wall built on texas land, built with texas money. talk a look at this video we shot of the construction earlier today with our fo
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agitators of this. my question to you given your experience is twofold. one, your analysis of this problem that s with us, and, two, given your experience at doj how will the feds and authorities deal with this? we re being told they re much more ready than last time. first of all, the news of this fence around the capitol building is really sad news for my amazing city. i know it s not bad news for donald trump. for the first time he got a wall built. not the wall i think that he was hoping for. but it looks like the protests i hope the protests on september 18th will be peaceful, but it s good to know that even if the trump supporters are willing to repeat their mistakes, law enforcement this time is not. they re obviously aggressive, they re on top of it. they re looking and being ready for any acts of violence. and i think, ari, what this shows to me is really the importance of this january 6th commission and investigation, both what s going on in congress but also the law enfo
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after the private meeting and abbott stood in front of where the section where the wall was built and where the wall had stopped, you saw material all over the ground after president biden signed executive order to stop construction of the wall. the steel and the material is on the ground rusting that american taxpayers paid for to have more miles of the wall built and that area, that section that we went to as congressman arrington unlike el paso that the vice president went, the area that we were at is where the crisis was occurring, humanitarian crisis unlike anything that we have ever seen in american history with one million migrants who have crossed places like where we were yesterday this year alone. ainsley: that s an interesting point because when you compare encounters in may alone, both place where is kamala went and where president trump went in
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