Katie Pavlich
April 27, 2022
-Townhall
Eagle Pass, TX – Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden halted construction on the U.S. southern border wall, which greatly helps Border Patrol and local law enforcement cut down on illegal activity. As a result, the Texas National Guard, deployed last summer through Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, has stepped in to fill the gaps with fencing lined with concertina or razor wire.
“When you drive a tank through a chainlink fence, if it has concertina wire on top, it’ll stop that tank because that wire will get wrapped up on the sprocket, the wheels of the tank. And I always say that to people because they’re like, ‘Well, anybody can get through this fence.’ And I’m like, well actually, I would be hesitant to drive a tank through it…I usually say that when I’m debating someone on walls or fences or barriers if you will,” Texas National Guard Public Affairs Officer Major Michael Perry told Townhall. “The wall works.”
According to Perry, 80 percent of farmers and ranchers on the border are happy to have walls or fences built on their property to protect their property.
During a visit to Eagle Pass this week, Townhall got a firsthand look at how National Guard soldiers are currently working to protect private ranches and farms from illegal crossings in the Lone Star State.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki falsely claimed border walls don’t work.
“The former President [Trump] invested billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work or be effective,” Psaki told reporters.
The Trump administration contracted border wall construction from 2016 and beyond. A number of materials – already been paid for with American tax dollars – have been left to rot by Biden administration officials.
“I would say that that leaves a lot of area uncovered,” Durbin lamented.
Then-Senator Barack Obama agreed.
“It will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders that should help stem the tide of illegal immigration in this country,” Obama said.