Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated Sunday that he would employ any Border Patrol specialist rebuffed by the Biden organization over the debate including mounted specialists and Haitian migrants last week.
Biden guaranteed on Friday that mounted Border Patrol agents “will pay” over the disproved allegation that agents used whips, ropes, or lassos to abuse Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.
Biden’s remark came after the photographic artist who snapped the notorious pictures of the mounted Border Patrol specialists stood up, saying he didn’t witness what Democrats and the media asserted.
Talking on “Fox News Sunday,” Abbott vowed to employ any Border Patrol agent rebuffed by the Biden administration.
“What the president said — going after the Border Patrol, who were risking their lives and working so hard to try to secure the border — if he takes any action against them whatsoever, I have worked side by side with those Border Patrol agents,” Abbott began. “I want them to know something: If they are at risk of losing their job at a president who is abandoning his duty to secure the border, you have a job in the state of Texas.”
“I will hire you to help Texas secure our border,” the Republican governor guaranteed.
Abbott, who described Biden as having “scapegoated” the Border Patrol, said Border Patrol agents would not have been in that position “had the Biden administration enforced the immigration laws and secured the border.”
The Texas governor said Border Patrol agents told him the surge of migrants into Del Rio only halted after he made moves, which he said was essential because the Biden administration has surrendered their constitutional responsibilities.
“Because the Biden administration is refusing to do its duty to enforce the laws of the United States, they have left Texas in no position other than for us to step up and do what we have to do,” Abbott said.
“You know, you mentioned the people in Del Rio and the way that Del Rio was overrun by a population about the same size of Del Rio that have been coming across the border illegally. As governor, I’m not gonna let that happen,” he continued. “I am going to step up and do whatever I have to do to make sure that I protect the people of Del Rio, as well as all these other communities in the state of Texas that the Biden administration is ignoring.”
“The people in South Texas, they are angry about the Biden administration for ignoring them, for abetting them,” Abbott said. “The Biden administration cares far more about people who are not in this country than he does of the people— American citizens who live in this country.”
Outraged Border Patrol agents revolted against Biden after his Friday comments. One agent disclosed to Fox News that Biden “just started a war with Border Patrol.”
“I see the administration wants to fry our agents,” that agent said.