Trump faults Biden during Texas visit: 'We produced the safest, best border we've ever had'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "President Biden needs to start right there and finish building the border wall," Abbott said, greeted with applause from a congressional delegation of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers and former Trump appointees who had come to support them.
54% : On Wednesday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's office said in a statement that she will deploy up to 50 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border, funded by donations from a Tennessee GOP billionaire, in response to Abbott's plea for added border security from other states.
53% : After Texas saw a dramatic increase in migrant youths arriving without adults last spring, Abbott surged state law enforcement to the border to assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection through "Operation Lone Star," including 1,000 state police plus Texas National Guard troops.
47% : But Abbott's disaster declaration allowed him to request emergency transfer of $250 million in state funds to begin state construction of the border wall, which he has said will also be paid for with private donations.
39% : He said he was concerned by reports that Biden could soon lift Title 42, a policy the Trump administration announced during the pandemic that in effect bars most migrants from claiming asylum at the border.
19% : Border Patrol encountered 180,034 migrants last month at the southern border, 40% of whom had previously crossed and been expelled under a pandemic policy started by Trump and continued by Biden.
13% : "What the governor is trying to do is protect people in Texas," Wolfe said, calling gaps in the border wall like the one Abbott and Trump visited "significant" and faulting the Biden administration for drawing migrants to the border.

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