The suspect is an 18-year-old American citizen who was reportedly fleeing from police during a human smuggling attempt.
Gov. Greg Abbott pointed to Operation Lone Star and the state’s effort to supplement the insufficient federal response.
In Texas border patrol sectors, there were more than 98,000 encounters with illegal aliens in October, according to the most recent data.
Abbott said that “progress is being made on our border wall” and posted images of a barrier made of a fence with razor wire.
An Ohio man allegedly crashed into oncoming traffic and killed eight people after a Texas state trooper tried to stop him near Del Rio.
Governor Greg Abbott suggested that Congress should “investigate and call upon the resignation of” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Thousands of illegal aliens, most of whom from Haiti, are waiting in Del Rio, Texas, to be arrested by border patrol agents.
Tens of thousands have been referred to federal immigration authorities for being illegally present in the country.
Abbott has confronted the federal government and issued a flurry of executive orders in recent months designed to deter illegal immigration.
After three weeks of no quorum and most of the Democratic caucus out of state, the Texas House remains frozen — unable to carry out any business.
Abbott wrote in a letter to the Texas Military Department that “more manpower is needed” to apprehend illegal aliens breaking state law.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session has been at a standstill for a lack of a quorum since Democrats fled Austin for Washington, D.C.
