Texas will build a camp for 1,800 National Guard troops to guard the border with Mexico

EFE.- Texas A military camp will be built in it border with Mexico which will house up to 1,800 Soldiers That state’s National Guard was deployed to help protect the dividing line, the governor reported this Friday. Greg Abbott.

He camp will be constructed in the area of Eagle passThe same border area where a Republican governor ordered a buoy barrier on the Rio Grande and for which he remains in dispute with the president’s government. Joe Biden.

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Dr. in a press conference from the place where the camp will be built. Abbott

Referring to the well-being of the said that this project was a win-win situation Soldiers The border and the work they are assigned.

“This will greatly increase the capacity of the Texas Military Department personnel Eagle pass To work more effectively and efficiently,” Abbott said.

The new facilities will house 1,800 soldiers National Guard from Texas, who have lived in squalid conditions since being assigned to guard the border in 2021 as part of Operation Lone Star, launched by Abbott.

He camp It will also have the capacity to accommodate 500 Soldiers If the Texas Tactical Border Force needs to be deployed to that area.

The Republican governor justified the construction camp Given the magnitude of the operation and the need to scale it up. “It will be good for them (the soldiers), it will improve living conditions and maintain very strong morale,” he said.

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The first phase is expected to be completed by April, providing around 300 beds.

“As we all know, when spring comes there will be fleet Which will go through southern and central Mexico… We want to make sure that when they come to the crossroads of whether they’re going to go to Texas or somewhere else, they know that’s the wrong place to go. condition of Texas” Abbott warned.

The camp is part of a wider effort Abbott Trying to prevent migrants from crossing the border illegally in Texas, and because of which he placed a barrier of barbed wire and buoys in the Rio Grande, a measure which has been criticized by the government of the President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Government of Texas Recently took control of a municipal park in Eagle Pass, where law enforcement agents are not allowed. Border Patrol The hope is to establish more barriers, and to process the migrants crossing the river.