Greg Abbott
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In a recent interview with The Daily Wire, Governor Abbott fumed over how the new leftist policy actively prevents local police from waiting 30 minutes for ICE to arrive at a scene to detain individuals with immigration warrants.
In response, the state has threatened to withhold $90 million in funds from Dallas and $2.5 million from Austin for taking a similar approach to policing.
Abbott called the lawmakers behind this move, quote, radical leftists and progressives and remarked that, quote, it was in the city of Houston where there were two illegal immigrants who were apprehended and let go and then went on to murder Jocelyn Nungere.
So these people are not comprehending the reality.
The Houston City Council voted Wednesday to amend the sanctuary policy, but it remains to be seen if the change is enough for them to keep the state funds.
Some have made the argument that Abbott has effectively defunded the police in these cities, to which he said this.
Go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they are experiencing right now.
They, being the White House, need to recalibrate on what needs to be done to make sure that that respect is going to be reinstilled, and that's not an easy task.
The ERCOT grid
has never been stronger, never been more prepared, and is fully capable of handling this winter storm.
There is no expectation whatsoever that there's going to be any loss of power from the power grid.
The ERCOT grid has never been stronger.
never been more prepared, and is fully capable of handling this winter storm.
There is no expectation whatsoever that there's going to be any loss of power from the power grid.
We passed laws making sure that they have two sources of power.
In case your first source of power is unavailable, you're going to have backup power.
Right now I am making a disaster declaration covering 134 counties across the state of Texas.