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Elderberry:
Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Blackman and Benjamin Wermund 6/11/2021

A bill to revive former President Donald Trump’s flagging effort was quashed in the House, never discussed in the Senate and left out of Gov. Greg Abbott’s policy priorities for the legislative session.

“With well over 100,000 illegal immigrants crossing the open Texas border last month, I don’t understand how this isn’t a top priority,” Rep. Bryan Slaton, a freshman Republican from Royse City, lamented to a conservative news outlet in April, saying House leaders had refused to give his border wall bill a hearing.

Now the proposal is front and center for the party, with Abbott vowing on Thursday to pick up where Trump left off, even if the logistics remain elusive. The governor said he would provide a full plan next week.

Abbott said in a radio interview Friday he envisions at least some of the money would be crowdsourced, a strategy used during the Trump years that became mired in allegations of fraud.

The Legislature has already approved a record $1.1 billion in funding for border security over the next two fiscal years to cover the costs of state trooper patrols.

The only available state dollars are about $11 billion in the rainy day fund, or nearly $16 billion in federal stimulus that is set to be allocated this fall in a special legislative session. The federal funds, however, have a number of strings attached to them and it’s unclear whether the House and Senate would agree to use those dollars for the wall.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/With-border-wall-plan-could-Gov-Abbott-succeed-16242613.php

AARguy:
GO ABBOTT GO! I'll be contributing! From guns to the border, from chucking out CRT to freedom from Obedience Masks and the freedom to shop, eat out and go to the beach... Abbott is a clear leader... a mover and shaker that protects our freedom from federal incursion! GO ABBOTT GO!

libertybele:

--- Quote from: AARguy on June 13, 2021, 08:48:51 pm ---GO ABBOTT GO! I'll be contributing! From guns to the border, from chucking out CRT to freedom from Obedience Masks and the freedom to shop, eat out and go to the beach... Abbott is a clear leader... a mover and shaker that protects our freedom from federal incursion! GO ABBOTT GO!

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I wouldn't be so quick to start throwing that party, yet.  I wouldn't be so quick to assume that Abbott is going to get 'er done -- intentions are there and he's asking for help from other state governments but ....

He will have absolutely no help from Biden and cronies:

Biden administration to return $2 billion in Trump border wall funds to Pentagon

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-return-billion-trump-border-wall-funds/story?id=78225965

Biden to return diverted border wall money, spend down rest

Perhaps the biggest obstacle (and it's a huge one) is that the border will lose the fast-track status that enabled it to bypass environmental regulations under a Biden administration.

So Abbott needs a tremendous amount of $$$ and he will undoubtedly run up against not only environmental issues, but the Biden administration is seizing land to stop the building.

Biden pledged to stop building the wall. But he just won the right to seize a Texas family’s land for it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/15/biden-border-wall-texas-property/

AARguy:
We all knw tat Biden and the DNC want open borders. They have already ESTABLISHED open borders so that penniless immigrants can come into our country freely and vote Dem to get free money, free healthcare, free college, etc. We know that. Abbott will make it without any Dem/lib funding. We Texans will support him. After all, we are the ones he is protecting... when the feds refuse to do so. We'd rather see higher taxes in pursuit of our own security than higher taxes to support the endless minions entering our country illegally.

libertybele:

--- Quote from: AARguy on June 13, 2021, 09:12:05 pm ---We all knw tat Biden and the DNC want open borders. They have already ESTABLISHED open borders so that penniless immigrants can come into our country freely and vote Dem to get free money, free healthcare, free college, etc. We know that. Abbott will make it without any Dem/lib funding. We Texans will support him. After all, we are the ones he is protecting... when the feds refuse to do so. We'd rather see higher taxes in pursuit of our own security than higher taxes to support the endless minions entering our country illegally.

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Sure, the intentions are absolutely there.  However, Biden is seizing land so that the border wall CAN NOT be completely built.  How much land he can seize is yet to be recognized. Most of the land needed for the border wall is either State land, which may be still a problem because of the EPA, and the other portion is private.  He can seize it be eminent domain.

I am not trying to discredit Abbott and certainly not the will of Texans, but merely pointing out the reality of what he and Texans are up against.

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