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In a speech Tuesday to attendees at the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas’ 146th annual training conference and expo in Fort Worth, Gov. Greg Abbott compared attacks on Israel by Hamas — the militant group that killed around 1,200 Israel is on Oct. 7 — to crime and immigration in Texas.
Abbott’s speech came after a representative from the Israeli military showed the sheriffs’ conference attendees a compilation of raw footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel, including a clip which appeared to show a militant using a knife to behead an Israeli adult. The film included footage of intercepted radio communications, social media posts, dashcam and phone video from victims, and CCTV videos, among other sources.
In his speech, Abbott summarized: “People at the tip of the spear of ensuring that we remain a law and order state are our sheriffs.” “Every single day, in every single public airport with commercial transportation in the United States, there are hundreds of TSA agents searching your body, searching your bags to make sure that no terrorist is gonna get onto a plane to commit a crime,” he said. “Why do we not have TSA agents by the thousands on the border, doing the same thing to all these people coming across the border?”
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