Mr. Trump also recounted the legal battles to prevent sections of unused wall from being sold as scrap, attributing the successful intervention to Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Abbott has already made efforts to militarize the border under Operation Lone Star, deploying the National Guard to South Texas and spending billions to initiate a state-constructed border wall.

Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the Texas-Mexico border," Abbott said in a statement. State Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, said he supports the governor's deployment.

In a letter to U.S. congressional leaders, the governor blamed previous border security policy for leaving Texas “defenseless,” forcing state officials to spend billions. Gov. Greg Abbott ...

(The Center Square) – Texas Gov ... immigration,” Abbott said. Examples of the administration’s “reckless open-border policies,” Abbott says, include halting border wall and barrier ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is requesting that the federal government reimburse his state more than $11.1 billion for taxpayer money spent on securing the southern border during former President Joe ...

(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott surged additional Texas military resources to the Rio Grande Valley ... Through OLS, they’ve built more than 240 miles of border barriers, constructed 100 ...

which fell squarely on the shoulders of Texas taxpayers but should have been the federal government’s responsibility,” Abbott said. Costs to Texas taxpayers to construct 100 miles of border wall and ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday morning asked the Texas Department of Public Safety, or DPS, to deploy tactical strike teams to “support the Trump Administration’s homeland ...

Abbott posted that Texas DPS troopers and special agents have been deployed to assist President Trump's Homeland Security Investigations in "targeting and removing illegal immigrants." Today ...