dps, building own border wall and spending millions of dollars to secure the border themselves. take a listen to what he had to say. i have deployed thousands of national guard troops and dps. and now texas is building its own border wall. bill: and speaking of the border wall, take a look at the video, this was last month in rio grande city and we were there as governor announced official construction of the border wall, 1.7-mile stretch going up. the idea behind it that it s going to plug the gaps where there s no federal wall. all being built with texas money, last thing his opponent beto o rourke he s seizing on the border wall. he say that is texas doesn t need the border wall. that it s a waste of taxpayer money. he says the national guard shouldn t be down here and he says governor abbott doesn t know what border communities