EXCERPT:
ABBOTT: “And what I can tell you for a fact is most of the people coming across the border, if not all of them, are not being tested. The point is this: the President and the Biden administration, they have two standards. If you’re going to pay money to come into the United States of America lawfully, you have to be tested. However, if you come into the country illegally, you don’t have to be tested. And as you know the numbers, there have been more than a million people who have come across the border illegally that we know of this year, most of whom have not been tested. And so the Biden administration actually has no adequate information to determine the extent to which people are coming across the border, by the millions, to know whether or not they were bringing Covid or the Omicron variant, whatever the case may be, into the United States of America. That is completely irresponsible and extremely dangerous. You talked about the got-aways, and the reason why we have got-aways is because the Biden administration has tied the hands of both the Border Patrol as well as I.C.E.. They have insufficient number of people on the border to secure the border. That’s exactly why Texas has 10,000 National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety officers on the border. It’s why we are erecting these barriers on the border and it’s exactly why Texas is building its own border wall."