Lt. Gov Dan Patrick letter:

Border officials announced last week that our southern border is at a breaking point.

Almost 100,000 people illegally crossed the border this month and Homeland Security believes a million people will cross illegally this year. 12,000 migrants are in custody in El Paso.

To provide perspective, border patrol officers there said this week that 4,000 is extremely high – 6,000 is a crisis and 12,000 is unprecedented. Nearly a dozen immigration checkpoints along our southern border were closed this week, as hundreds of border patrol agents were pulled from other ports of entry to help in El Paso.

In the Rio Grande Valley, border officials say they have been forced to release undocumented immigrants because of the massive influx. Incredibly, some left-wing progressives continue to ignore the skyrocketing numbers, calling it a “manufactured crisis,” but in Texas, we know the crisis is real.

Since I have been Lt. Governor, I have allocated $1.6 billion in the budget for additional boots on the ground at the border as well as boats and other surveillance equipment. We have put an additional $800,000 in the new budget.

Yesterday, Beto O’Rourke said illegal immigration make us safer, even though drug dealers, gang members and other criminals are among those who are crossing the border illegally. In fact, the drug cartels control illegal crossings through extortion and worse.

I was on Varney & Co last week talking about the crisis at the border. In case you missed it, you can watch the interview here.

Varney & Co. | March 26, 2019

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If 100,000 illegals isn’t a crisis, what is?

In foreign countries –  if you attempt to enter and you are asked to “halt,” and you don’t – they shoot you.

In Democrat states of America – the DEMOCRAT’S greet them with papers to sign up to vote illegally, a free welfare card, a free place to stay, and a free driver’s license – called entitle-mints –  which citizens are not entitled.

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