President-elect Donald Trump's victory could let Texas reallocate billions of dollars from border-security initiatives, Gov. Greg Abbott said.
At a visit to Kingdom Life Academy in Tyler, Abbott was asked about Trump's plan which calls for the largest mass deportation in American history.“President Trump will provide a more secure border than any president in the history of the United States of America,” Abbott said during a news conference.
“The last thing they should be doing is roaming the streets, like what Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have allowed them to do,” Abbott said. “If you are a danger to people in Tyler, or people in Dallas or wherever you may be in our country, you should be off the streets, behind bars and sent back to the country from which you came.”
Amerika Garcia Grewal, an Eagle Pass resident who runs a border vigil to honor those who died trying to cross the Rio Grande, said she also fears the economic impact on migrant communities “and the U.S. citizens and the U.S. residents who are connected to them.”“So much of our economy depends … on immigrant labor – agriculture, construction, health care,” she said. “Costs will go up for everyone, and we’ll have a huge shortage of service providers.
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