Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP leaders want to more than double their already amped-up spending on border security, to add 1,800 National Guard troops, put more boats in the Rio Grande and boost funding of Abbott’s proposed state border wall, The Dallas Morning News reports.
Texas would put more boats in the Rio Grande, deploy 1,800 more National Guard soldiers there and prosecute and imprison illegsl immigrants arrested offenses such as trespassing.
A $1.77 billion appropriations bill filed late Thursday by Friendswood GOP Rep. Greg Bonnen, the House’s chief budget writer, would give Abbott’s office slightly more than $1 billion for the making of border security grants.
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