ICYMI: Gov. Greg Abbott issued a press release Friday lauding Operation Lone Star for stopping 'criminals at President Biden's open border.' This week, two bodies were found in the Rio Grande, one of which was discovered stuck in the buoys.
The Republican governor issued a press release Friday lauding Operation Lone Star for stopping"criminals at President Biden's open border."Adults and children walk along razor wire covering the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass after illegally crossing over into the United States on June 14.Soon after news broke that the bodies of two migrants had been pulled from the Rio Grande, Gov. Greg Abbott issued a press release with an eye-grabbing headline.
Abbott’s Friday news release lauded the state’s efforts to “secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal behavior between ports of entry.
Officials in Mexico reported this week that two bodies had been found in the Rio Grande. Although one of the corpses was discovered stuck in the buoys recently installed by Abbott, Texas officials claimed that the person had drowned upstream before floating into the barrier.that the buoys were to blame for one of the deaths.,” an Abbott spokesperson said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.
“Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden's open border policies,” reads the governor's Friday news release.
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