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
for by the state of texas. the idea being they will try to fill the gaps where there s no federal wall after the biden administration canceled all of the federal contracts. the trump wall that was in the process of being built. take a look at the video. this is his opponent, former congressman beto o rourke, democrat taking a drastically different approach to the border. he does not believe that a border wall should go up. he says it s a waste of taxpayer dollars and he says the national guard shouldn t be here. he says all the money that governor abbott has been sending for border security down here, should better be going to schools and infrastructure, that sort of a thing. it s going to be a head to head battle and see how that plays out. back out here live the omicron variant spreading across the country and hitting border patrol in the rio grande valley. dhs source telling us that border patrol have more than 200 employees quarantine with 188 confirmed infections of covid-19. we w