Texas Gov. Abbott: We Went from 3,000 Crossings in El Paso Under Biden to 9 Crossings a Day

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ABBOTT: "We’ve never seen a change as much as we saw four years ago, and now this year, with regard to what’s happening on the border. What began happening four years ago, of course, was a complete failure to enforce the immigration laws of the United States of America. And as a result, we saw an all-time record number of people crossing the border illegally, more than 11 million people, including people who are known murderers, rapists and gang members and cartel members. And as a result, the crime across the country skyrocketed. Now, in the immediate aftermath of the Trump election and Trump taking office, it’s gone from 11 million people across the border illegally to just a trickle, as in just a handful of people. I was with some officials from El Paso last night, and they said that where there had been 3000 people crossing the border, sometimes a day, just in El Paso, there were now nine — nine people a day. And the people who do make it across the border now, they are immediately arrested and then deported, and as a result, discouraging people from entering the border again. And so, quite literally, in February was an all-time reported low of the number of people crossing the border illegally. And we are seeing that now in the state of Texas with a massive reduction in illegal entries into our state."