Texas Gov. Abbott Wants $11 Billion Border Security Reimbursement: Protecting ‘The Rest Of America’ Was Expensive
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wants Congress to reimburse his state for more than $11 billion spent on border security since the start of the Biden administration.
Abbott submitted a detailed invoice outlining the costs incurred by Operation Lone Star, which Texas undertook to “protect the rest of America” against Joe Biden’s “reckless open-border policies that invited record-breaking illegal immigration,” Abbott wrote in a letter to congressional leaders on Thursday.
He accused the former president of having stopped construction of the border wall and rewarding criminals who illegally entered the U.S. Biden halted construction of the border wall in 2021.
Building The Wall Is Back On
On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump pledged to get back to building the wall. …