“If you’re an FBI officer looking for a different opportunity in law enforcement, Texas needs a lot of it. And we got a lot of investigations,” Abbott said.
“If there’s anybody in the FBI who is dissatisfied with their working condition with their leadership, which, by the way, is not just Border Patrol and may not just be FBI, there are so many people working under the Biden administration that see how this administration is completely going off the rails.”
Abbott came out swinging this week, criticizing the White House for trying to “squelch dissent” with its search warrant execution. Other Texas Republicans lambasted the raid as well.
The raid was reportedly focused on classified documents Trump is alleged to have taken with him after leaving the White House.
The governor made a similar comment last year when border patrol agents were accused of whipping Haitian migrants who crossed the Rio Grande illegally into Del Rio — an accusation proven untrue by an investigative report.
Shortly after, Abbott said the state would hire any border patrol agents against whom action was taken by the federal government.
“I came out multiple times and said that if those border patrol officers are punished in any way, the State of Texas will be proud to step up and hire them and add them to our forces that we have on the border to secure our border,” Abbott told Salcedo, “And the same principle applies here.”
No figures are yet available on how many border patrol agents have since taken up that offer by the state.
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Brad Johnson
Brad Johnson is a senior reporter for The Texan and an Ohio native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He is an avid sports fan who most enjoys watching his favorite teams continue their title drought throughout his cognizant lifetime. In his free time, you may find Brad quoting Monty Python productions and trying to calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
