{"id":1829796,"date":"2023-01-31T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829796"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:10:35","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-names-first-ever-border-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbott-names-first-ever-border-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott Names First Ever Border Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-gov-abbott-names-first-ever-border-czar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-08\/GettyImages-1332971137.jpg?h=6379b654&#038;itok=cSNW5H_I\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A new &#8220;border czar\u201d has been named to oversee border security in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that Mike Banks (a retired U.S. Border Patrol agent) will be his &#8220;border czar&#8221; to oversee Texas&#8217; border security.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris the President \u201cborder czar\u201d in 2021, claiming she\u2019d be involved with border security efforts. Harris continues to be criticised for failing to provide oversight, not visiting the border, and repeatedly claiming the border was closed multiple times as record numbers of illegal alien nationals were apprehended, or evade capture, federal data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott claimed that he invented a \u201cSpecial Advisor on Border Matters\u201d Texas&#8217;s first-ever border czar. He is determined to do what the federal government has rejected to do.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott made the announcement before a section of the border wall that is being built in San Benito (Texas), in Cameron County. He was joined by Steve McCraw, Texas Department of Public Safety Director, and Major General Thomas Suelzer, Texas Military Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding a border wall and adding hundreds of miles of other barriers,\u201d Abbott stated, \u201cis only one way that Texas is responding to President Biden\u2019s refusal to enforce the immigration laws of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Texas\u2019 law enforcement efforts through Operation Lone Star, he said, \u201cWe have turned back more than 32,000 illegal immigrants trying to cross into our country. We\u2019ve arrested more than 24,000 criminals. We have enough fentanyl in our possession to kill every American woman, man and child. We have also targeted cartels profiting from President Biden&#8217;s illegal immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal immigration in Texas is a full-time job,\u201d Abbott stated that Mike Banks was his. \u201cthe perfect choice\u201d To be Texas&#8217; first ever border czar. Banks, who is a veteran of serving in Washington, D.C. and three states, has served under four presidents. \u201chas seen firsthand the struggles of ranchers and communities caused by open borders,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cHe understands the dangerous impacts that Mexican cartels have on our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banks, who served as a Border Patrol agent for over 23 years, stated that he was \u201chumbled\u201d by the opportunity to help protect the southern border, something he\u2019d dedicated his life to and was very passionate about. He hoped to strengthen relationships with law enforcement partners and the community to continue Texas\u2019 border security efforts, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott stated that the cost of building a border wall will be $25 million per mile. This will vary depending on where it is built. Part of the cost is associated with the materials, but the other part is acquiring the rights to build on the land \u2013 meaning paying private landowners for part of their property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that has slowed our process\u201d He said that he was involved in the construction of the border wall. \u201cwas getting those rights.\u201d The state now accelerates building more walls after it has acquired land rights, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Facilities Commission started research in 2021 and began the procurement process to construct the wall. On Dec. 18, 2021, Abbott debuted the construction of Texas\u2019 first border wall on state land in Rio Grande City.<\/p>\n<p>On June 20, 2022, the first 1.7-mile section of the wall\u2019s construction in Starr County was completed, according to TFC.<\/p>\n<p>TFC Executive Director Mike Novak testified before the state Senate Finance Committee last July saying that in less than a year\u2019s time, TFC had completed the first segment of the program\u2019s permanent infrastructure. TFC, a small state agency employing less than 400 people, assumed the job of U.S. Army Corp of Engineers with 37,000 employees. \u201cto solicit, contract, engineer, and construct a permanent wall along the Texas- Mexico border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas DPS identified around 40 miles \u201cof the highest priority to secure the border.\u201d State budget for border wall construction is $1 billion at $25 million per mile<\/p>\n<p>TFC approved the purchase of bollard panels worth $43 million to construct 12.8 miles of border wall. It continued to approve building plans over the subsequent months. By December of last year, installation of another segment began in Cameron County \u2013 the site where Abbott made the announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new &#8220;border czar\u201d has been named to oversee border security in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that Mike Banks (a retired U.S. Border Patrol agent) will be his &#8220;border czar&#8221; to oversee Texas&#8217; border security. President Joe Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris the President \u201cborder czar\u201d in 2021, claiming she\u2019d be involved &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1773311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3697,3811,5062,8338,6574,3694],"class_list":["post-1829796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-abbott","tag-border","tag-czar","tag-gov","tag-names","tag-texas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}