Texas taxpayers had to foot the bill for $4.8 billion on walls and barriers, Local grants to counties and cities, processing criminal arrests and moving migrants out of small Texas towns. The state also spent $3.6 billion to deploy the national guard for building border barriers. guarding and constructing those barriers, and assisting border patrol and customs and border protection. Another 2.25 billion has gone toward personnel costs for Texas state troopers, law enforcement who were … (09:33–09:43)
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Asserts that Texas spent $3.6 billion on deploying the National Guard for border security.
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