Trump To Tour Texas, Tout His Wall With Abbott In Tow

DALLAS, TX —Ex-president Donald Trump has added yet another stop on his Texas schedule.

The former chief executive is already speaking at CPAC somewhere during the July weekend of 9-11, and now he's let it be known he's “accepted the invitation” to visit the southern border of the Lone Star State on June 30 with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in tow.

In a statement, the former president asserted that “The Biden Administration inherited from me the strongest, safest, and most secure border in U.S history and in mere weeks they turned it into the single worst border crisis in U.S history. It’s an unmitigated disaster zone.”

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Of course, the construction of a wall along the southern edges of the US-Mexico border was one of Trump's key promises as a candidate and then as Oval Office occupant, along with guarantees that Mexico itself would pay for the wall.

Ultimately, there were some 450 miles of barrier constructed, although most of that was in Arizona. Mexico did not pay for it.

A week ago, Abbott announced that Texas would assume responsibility for the wall and build its own barrier to discourage illegal immigration. He added that the state would seek donors from around the country for his version of whatever the barrier will be, and that it could be partially crowdfunded.

Abbott's move has already met with resistance and criticism based on the constitutionality of such construction, since immigration is under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

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