Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced he will tour the southern border this weekend with 14 other Republican governors, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who declared that record levels of migrant crossings constituted an “invasion” last week.
Cox has consistently stood behind Abbott’s efforts to implement border security measures, including mobilizing the Texas National Guard, in response to what Cox called “President Joe Biden’s open border policies,” in a press release.
Cox will join Abbott, as well the governors of Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Tennessee, in meeting with Texas law enforcement officials for a press conference on Sunday afternoon in Eagle Pass, Texas.
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On Jan. 24, Abbott issued a statement outlining ways the Biden administration had “broken the compact between the United States and the States.” Abbott accused Biden of failing to enforce immigration laws passed by Congress, releasing immigrants who entered the country illegally into the country in large numbers and compromising Texas’ “border security infrastructure.”