The Florida Governor is poised to use Eagle Pass as the backdrop for a border policy...
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an annual Basque Fry at the Corley Ranch in Gardnerville, Nev., June 17, 2023.first public campaign event in Texas on Monday, a visit that's all about appealing to voters in early primary states that will be critical in deciding if he is going to catch up with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in the race for the White House.
DeSantis is clearly trying to build up his bonafides on an issue that was key to propelling Trump to the White House in 2016, Scala said. Even outside of Texas, GOP primary voters in places like New Hampshire still see the border as one of the biggest issues facing the nation because of how it connects to illegal opioids flowing into the country.Eagle Pass has also been an unexpected frontline for border crossings in Texas since Biden took office.
“We will finally after years and years of discussions and Republicans complaining about it, we will finally be the administration to bring this border issue to a conclusion," he said in Rochester, New Hampshire earlier this month."We are going to shut the border down, we are going to build the border wall,”
that showed a little more than 450 miles were completed when Trump left office, with most of that replacing and refurbishing about 370 miles of existing barriers. Texas already had miles of border fences primarily in El Paso and along the Rio Grande Valley. Only about 20 miles of new fencing was constructed in Texas by Trump, mostly in the Rio Grande Valley where large concrete slabs with miles of gaps between them lay in fields.
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