… budget process, we're going to be able to reevaluate priorities and how we rank those priorities and what exactly the spending will be upon. Let me give you an example. We have entered into agreements with the United States where our National Guard, who are deployed on the border as we speak right now, as opposed to having to perform the functions that we have been, which have been in contrast with what the federal government has been doing. Instead, we're able to collaborate with the federal government to deny illegal entry. As a result, many of our National Guard have been designated as working for the Border Patrol, performing border Patrol based functions of apprehension, detention, processing, all those kinds of processes. (07:23–07:47)
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Asserts that Texas has agreements with the U.S. for National Guard collaboration on border security.
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