The federal government is being told their Border Patrol agents not to do the jobs. So we had to step in as a state. I talked about that earlier. We had to spend the money as a state to basically go defend our own border. The amount of drugs and fentanyl crossing that border every single day. I talked about Fentanyl, the number one killer of 1845 year olds in this country. Fentanyl, poisonous. (00:44–00:48)
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Asserts that the state of Texas had to allocate funds to defend its border due to federal inaction.
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