Gov. Greg Abbott, 10 GOP governors to talk in South Texas about immigration policies
MISSION — Gov. Greg Abbott plans to return the southern border Wednesday, where he will meet with 10 like-minded fellow Republican state chief executives from around the nation to once more call attention to unauthorized immigration across the Rio Grande.
Joining Abbott and governors from as far away as Idaho and Montana in the border city of Mission will be the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety and a top general in the state's National Guard. It will be Abbott's third visit to a border community in just over two weeks, and it comes three months after he hosted former President Donald Trump in South Texas, where they laid the blame for the migration increase at the feet of the Biden administration.
Mission Mayor Armando O’Caña, who has lived his entire life in the city, said that despite the intense national publicity and sometimes overheated rhetoric, he sees scant evidence that his community is being overtaken by migrants crossing from Mexico.
"We have not seen anything out of the ordinary of what we've seen, historically speaking," said O’Caña, who has served three years as mayor and 15 years on the Mission City Council. He was not formally notified by Abbott's office of the planned visit to his city. "Our city limits have 17 miles of the Rio Grande neighboring with Mexico. I've lived in Mission for some 67 years, and we haven't seen any changes."
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/10/05/gov-abbott-gop-governors-talk-south-texas-immigration-policies/6011065001/
