Abbott said the camp would allow the Guard to “increase the speed and flexibility” of National Guard members to respond to attempted border crossings.
Texas officials are building an 80-acre base camp in Eagle Pass that will allow the state to permanently station nearly 2,000 National Guard members along the border under Gov. Greg Abbott’s ramped-up enforcement efforts. The facility, announced by Abbott on Friday, will sit several miles southeast of Shelby Park, a key border area near the Eagle Pass International Bridge that was seized last month by Texas National Guard members.
Abbott vows expansion of Texas border security push alongside 13 Republican governors in Eagle Pass “For now, the National Guard have been scattered across this entire region, in cramped quarters, away from fellow soldiers, sometimes traveling long distances to be able to do their job,” Abbott said. “What this is going to do is to dramatically improve the conditions for our soldiers.
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