Exclusive | Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas cant afford a Kamala Harris presidency after spending $10B to secure border

Texas taxpayers have shelled out a whopping $10 billion for their state’s border security effort, Texas Gov.Greg Abbott says — and the state can’t afford four more years of chaos at the border.Abbott told The Post in an exclusive interview that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris will not work with him to secure the border if she is elected.

His evidence, he said Harris has been invited multiple times to tour the Texas border, and “She never has ever even responded.” “She’s refused to step up” — despite Biden giving her responsibility for stopping the flow of illegal migrants, he said.Abbott’s border security effort — dubbed “Operation Lone Star” — has resulted in more than 500,000 illegal migrant apprehensions, 46,000 criminal arrests and the seizures of more than 521,000,000 lethal doses of fentanyl since it started in 2021, Texas authorities said.The governor has also bused more than 119,000 migrants to sanctuary cities, including New York City, where he’s sent 45,900 migrants in just two years.However, Texas can’t afford to keep footing the bill, he said.“Texas has stepped up in such a prolific way, coming out of Texas taxpayer pockets by far more than $10 billion of our own money to pay for border security to deal with the refusal of the Biden-Harris administration to secure the border,” said Abbott.“We cannot go through another four years of that,” he added.In March 2021, Harris was tasked with addressing the “root causes of migration” to help stop the flow of illegal immigration.

However, what followed was record levels of millions of illegal border crossing.Illegal migrant crossings slowed in recent months after the Biden-Harris administration introduced new restrictions on asylum access — with border agents recording roughly 58,000 migrant encounters in August — down from 250,000 in December.Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris admin has allowed 1.3 million migrants to fly directly to the US or use a phone ap...