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| After meeting with President Trump at the White House yesterday, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott spoke to reporters about the progress in his state curbing illegal immigration. | ||
| He said Texas was seeking an $11 billion reimbursement for more than 50 miles of border wall it had built over the past four years. | ||
| This is just under 10 minutes. | ||
| You guys all sit up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So this was a very productive day on just a common sense issue. | ||
| It's an issue where in Texas, listen, we've already signed two laws banning men and women sports. | ||
| What happened today, however, was setting a standard for the United States of America, ripping apart the executive order that was put in place by Joe Biden that was completely lawless, in fact overturned by a court, but also establishing just a very common sense standard, and that is no men and women's sports. | ||
| This is a nonpartisan, bipartisan issue that the overwhelming majority of Americans support. | ||
| And I and governors and other officials from across the country, as well as women across the country, are so proud of President Trump for stepping up and signing this executive order today. | ||
| Take a few questions. | ||
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Can you talk more about your conversation with President Trump and Tom Holman earlier this morning when we're talking to Scott? | |
| What role will Texas play? | ||
| So listen, Tom Holman and I stay in touch quite often and we talk about strategies that we may use or ways that we can work together and I'll just leave it at that. | ||
| With regard to the president, we again talked about what was maybe the most pivotal issue in his campaign, the one that Americans wanted to make sure he got elected on, and that was securing the border. | ||
| First, we talked about how successful it was, how much illegal immigration has dropped in the state of Texas to just a mere trickle. | ||
| Then we talked about other things that we're doing. | ||
| So Texas has completed more than 50 miles of border wall. | ||
| We're going to be adding another about 20 miles of border wall here in the coming days. | ||
| It's under construction right now. | ||
| And we've acquired more than 100 miles of easement. | ||
| I'll let the president know that all of that is available for the United States of America. | ||
| Texas built two military bases that can house 2,000 soldiers in one base, 400 soldiers in another base. | ||
| I made sure the president know that was available to him. | ||
| I let the president know that we have identified 4,000 jail cells in the state of Texas that can be used as detention facilities. | ||
| So we're just continuing to find ways we can assist the Trump administration in finally securing our border. | ||
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Governor, did you ever say about the $11 billion reimbursement for Operation Lone Star? | |
| Sure. | ||
| And so... | ||
| So listen, I brought the topic as I have both with Speaker Johnson with members of Congress. | ||
| I'll be back again next week to talk more about that with members of Congress. | ||
| But yeah, listen, he understands that in part, this is in a way a real estate transaction because Texas can transfer to the United States of America a value of well over five or six billion dollars of real assets on the ground that Texas put in place that will continue to secure the United States for decades to come. | ||
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Can any of them license to what tenant will be from Texas? | |
| I have no information about that. | ||
| Can you double down on the five to six billion? | ||
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Is that land or? | |
| You know, so on the border wall itself, more than 50 miles and adding the 20 miles we're working on right now. | ||
| No, this is during the past four years. | ||
| So what Texas is seeking is reimbursement to the state of Texas of about $11 billion of costs incurred over the past four years because of the unprecedented illegal crossings that took place that has never before happened. | ||
| And what Texas did, we've already finished 56 miles of border wall. | ||
| We have under construction another 18 miles of border wall. | ||
| We've acquired and in the process of finishing the acquisition of more than 100 miles of land for more than 100 miles and more border wall. | ||
| Those are real tangible real estate assets for the federal government. | ||
| It's the same wall that Trump built. | ||
| So it's the same specifics, same schematics, all that. | ||
| And so it's turning over an asset that the Trump administration or the United States of America would have invested in. | ||
| But it's more than that. | ||
| For the next four years, for the United States of America to have a physical location, a base of operation, one is in Eagle Pass, another's in Del Rio, where the United States of America can use about 2,500 beds for, it could be military, it could be for Border Patrol, it could be for ICE agents, whatever the case may be. | ||
| That is there for them to be able to use. | ||
| Also, the state of Texas is offering 4,000 prison cells at no cost to the United States that they will be able to use for at least the next four years or longer than that if it's needed. | ||
| And so there are ways in which there's valuable real estate that can be transferred ownership from the state of Texas to ownership to the United States of America. | ||
| And the value of that is close to $6 billion. | ||
| Did he go for that deal? | ||
| He understood exactly what he was talking about. | ||
| He has to talk to his advisors. | ||
| He has to talk to Congress, just like I do. | ||
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And Governor, can you confirm that the Mexicans have right up at the border and what you have seen? | |
| Is there any progress on that? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I personally have not seen them. | ||
| I know that the announcement has been made about the Mexican troops going to the border. | ||
| I can tell you what I've seen in the past, and that is whenever Mexico does send troops to the border, it has an immediate impact, an immediate reduction in the number of people crossing the border illegally. | ||
| And I just have to assume that this will replicate this. | ||
| And this could even be larger because in the past I've seen one or two thousand, not 10,000. | ||
| If they do that, it'll have an enormous impact. |