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Gov. Greg Abbott praises White House border visit, urges legal and military steps to reduce crossings
Summary
Governor Greg Abbott said a visit by senior federal officials to the Texas border showed progress and urged legal action and a military role to further reduce illegal crossings, repeating claims about recent record-low crossings and high return rates.
Governor Greg Abbott said a visit by the vice president and other federal officials to the Texas-Mexico border demonstrated progress in enforcement but that more legal and military measures are needed to reduce illegal crossings further.
"Well, for one, it's great to have a vice president who actually comes to the border and sees what's going on," Abbott said, describing a roundtable where Texas officials showed what the state had done and discussed recent numbers for February that Abbott called "all time record lows" in illegal crossings. He added that the vice president asked what could be done to "cut that in half then cut it in half…
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