Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has announced plans to construct a military base for the state’s National Guard in the border town of Eagle Pass as part of efforts to keep illegal immigrants from crossing into the United States in that area, the Washington Examiner reported over the weekend.
A few months ago the Justice Department sued the Texas government, and the Border Patrol was ordered to take down barbed wire fences Texas had put up at the border. However, the Texas National Guard has continued to erect more.
In explaining his announcement of the new base — which will eventually house some 1,800 National Guardsmen, with the first phase of 300 beds available in April — Abbot said at a press conference that it “will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas Military Department soldiers in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and efficiently.”
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