Sort of Texas serving as a role model because certainly crossings are down. And you look at the buoys, you look at just all the efforts Texas had to take matters into its own hands. Yeah. Texas had to spend billions of dollars, billions of dollars to be able to do the job that the federal government was not doing. And that was to protect our borders. You know, we obviously have a large, you know, how many thousands of miles that are right on the bo. (19:12–19:19)
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