The state of Texas spent nearly $4.8 billion billion dollars on walls and barriers. Local grants to counties and cities, processing criminal arrests and moving migrants out of small Texas towns. Deploying the National Guard for building border barriers, guarding and constructing those barriers and apprehending migrants cost another $3.6 billion. billion. Then Texas had personnel costs for our state troopers, Department of Public Safety troopers who were responsible for repelling additional illegal migrants, arresting those who otherwise broke the law. (09:09–09:23)
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Asserts that deploying the National Guard for border security cost Texas $3.6 billion.
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