The Biden administration blamed Texas for interfering with border enforcement by stationing its National Guard along the Rio Grande while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s self-defense strategy is reducing illegal border crossings in parts of Eagle Pass by the thousands.
“The area where we have occupied this park in Eagle Pass, Texas, that we put up the razor wire, there used to be 3,000 or 4,000 people crossing that area a day. For the past three days, we’ve averaged just three people crossing that area,” Abbott confirmed on Monday to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo.
Texas Gov. @GregAbbott_TX: “The area where we have occupied this park in Eagle Pass, Texas, that we put up the razor wire, there used to be 3,000 or 4,000 people crossing that area a day. For the past three days, we’ve averaged just 3 people crossing that area.” pic.twitter.com/OYuaA4wp86
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 5, 2024
While data on this section of the large U.S. southern border only represents a small portion of the record-breaking number of illegal immigrations making their way into Texas, it also shows the Lone Star State’s effectiveness in slowing the influx of those crossers into certain high-traffic areas like Shelby Park. Less than two months ago, more than 14,000 illegal border crossers per day were recorded using Eagle Pass as their entry point to the United States.
In a filing to the Supreme Court last month, Biden’s Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asserted Texas was attempting “to block Border Patrol’s ability
