Greg Abbott is wasting billions in taxpayer money on border barriers while Texas remains vulnerable to the freezing temperatures that shut it down last February
“As we speak, Maria, there are officers and National Guard on the border and they are laying down razor wire at all the low water crossings, as well as building barriers on those crossings,” Abbott said. “In addition to that … Texas is building its own border wall — that process is moving very rapidly — and I’m told to expect some of that border wall to be up as soon as two months from now.”
Democratic lawmakers have demanded an investigation into the initiative. Reps. Joaquin Castro , Veronica Escobar , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , and others wrote on Friday that Operation Lone Star is “wreaking havoc on Texas’ judicial system”“These operations have continued to militarize Texas’ border communities and interfered with the federal immigration system, likely violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution,” the members of Congress wrote.
While Abbott’s focus is on the border wall, the state’s infrastructure remains vulnerable to the same freezing temperatures that shut down Texas last Feburary. Abbott signed a bill implementing some reforms and pledged that “everything that needed to be done was done to fix the power grid in Texas,” but Michael Webber, a University of Texas at Austin professor specializing in energy,
that the state has “not done enough to” prepare its electrical system to withstand another deadly winter storm. “We are not ready for another cold winter,” he added.
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