{"id":549384,"date":"2021-06-02T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549384"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:20:22","slug":"texas-gov-declares-state-of-emergency-over-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-declares-state-of-emergency-over-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov Declares State of Emergency Over Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-declares-state-of-emergency-over-border%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=549384&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-83.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0this week issued a state of emergency for the Lone Star State over border crossing concerns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities,&#8221; Abbott said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/governor-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-in-response-to-border-crisis-in-texas\">statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, landowners along the border are seeing their property damaged and vandalized on a daily basis while the Biden Administration does nothing to protect them,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas continues to step up to confront the border crisis in the federal government&#8217;s absence, but more must be done. By declaring a state of disaster in these counties, Texas will have more resources and strategies at our disposal to protect landowners and enforce all federal and state laws to combat criminal activities stemming from the border crisis. Working together with local law enforcement, the state will continue to take robust and meaningful action to keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas state Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo, dismissed the state of emergency as politics, telling local NBC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/texas-politics\/gov-greg-abbott-issues-disaster-declaration-in-response-to-surge-at-texas-mexico-border\/\">KXAN<\/a> that \u201cI do not think that this is a disaster. This is a state version of [former President Donald Trump] declaring a border emergency. I disagree with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott also announced that Trump had endorsed him in his reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is a great friend of Texas,\u201d the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1399850143478915080\">tweeted<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cI thank him for his endorsement. I&#8217;m proud of the work we&#8217;ve done together to secure our border, bring more jobs to Texas, &#038; protect the freedoms that make America &#038; Texas great \u2014 &#038; we are just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Abbott accused Biden of having abandoned \u201cthe rule of law\u201d at the border in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur state legislature, they allocated about $800 million every two years for the state to pay for this [border security],\u201d he said on Fox News last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, because of the extended time that we will have the National Guard on the border, it likely \u2014 will clearly \u2014 exceed a billion dollars for the state to have to secure the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also recently announced his plans to create legislation that would outlaw the creation or delivery of the opioid fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear,\u201d Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/28\/texas-criminalizes-fentanyl-amid-drug-surge-from-border-crisis\/\">said<\/a> last week, \u201cthat Biden\u2019s open-border policies are unleashing deadly consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u00a0this week issued a state of emergency for the Lone Star State over border crossing concerns. &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous gangs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278907,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-83.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Gov Declares State of Emergency Over Border","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-83.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Gov Declares State of Emergency Over Border","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549384","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=549384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}