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View Source | February 11, 2024 5:26 pm

The Texas legislature has allocated more than $11.6 billion to border security efforts over a four-year period, the most in state history.

The amount is more than what the Trump administration allocated to federal border security efforts in Texas.

“The problem at the border was of a magnitude that we had never before experienced and efforts and initiatives we had taken in the past were simply going to be insufficient,” state GOP Rep. Greg Bonnen, R-Friendswood, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said last week. “We needed a new plan, and it was going to require great resources.”

Last week, GOP Gov. Gregg Abbott met with 13 governors who all expressed their commitment to defending Texas.

Texas has been so successful at blocking illegal entry that cartel activity has been pushed west into Democratic-led states that aren’t implementing similar tactics that Texas has, state Border Czar Mike Banks told The Center Square.

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