Border Crisis

Governor Greg Abbott has taken it upon himself to reinforce security along the US-Mexico border due to the influx of migrants. Measures such as barbed wire along the shore, increased border patrol and National Guard presence and the addition of a floating barrier in the river. Abbott has expressed officials should take “deadly force” with these migrants and is currently facing a federal lawsuit from the Department of Justice. Given the SB3 bill passed by Governor Abbott, the state has committed $1.54 billion to reinforcing the Texas southern border and allowed $40 billion for state troopers to patrol a neighborhood in Houston thought of being a magnet for undocumented migrants.

Additionally, Greg Abbott has signed the SB4 bill into law making illegal immigration a state crime as well as a federal crime. This enables local and state law enforcement to incarcerate undocumented immigrants and subject those they believe are undocumented to questioning.

To hear us talk more about the crisis at the border and Abbotts growing policies, listen in to Tejanos Talk every week!

Links related to the crisis at the border:

- https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/18/texas-governor-abbott-bills-border-wall-illegal-entry-crime-sb3-sb4/

- https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/85r/billtext/pdf/sb00004f.pdf

- https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SB-4-five-questions.pdf

- https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/19/texas-immigration-law-lawsuit-border-aclu/