As the 89th Texas Legislative session heats up, we have been hard at work meeting with lawmakers to discuss our 2025 legislative priorities.
One of the key events that will set the tone for each legislative session is the State of the State address delivered by Governor. Gov. Greg Abbott will give this address on Sunday evening, and in it he will lay our his emergency legislative items for the legislature.
Importantly, these items are the only items the legislature can pass for the first 60 days of session, which go through March 14th this year.
Yesterday, we wrote a letter to Gov. Abbott urging him to designate Border Security and Enforcement as emergency items. You can read the whole letter below:
As we have written since before the 2024 general election, now is not the time to rest on our laurels and leave our state’s future to the federal government.
Although the Trump administration is doing all that they can to secure our border and reverse the effects of the invasion at our border, our state legislature must do their part to secure our state for the future.
Find out how to watch Gov. Abbott’s State of the State here.
On Tuesday, Jennie Taer of the New York Post reported that the Trump administration set a new quota of 1,800 arrests per day from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, these numbers are a “floor” for arrests, and the administration expects ICE to ramp up deportation efforts even more.
In the aftermath of the Biden administration’s Open Border, where as many as 20 million illegal and inadmissible aliens entered our country, the Trump administration has the heavy task of undoing the damage.
ICE is currently facing a $230 million budget shortfall, and congress will need to deliver a substantial budget increase in order to deliver on the mandate for mass deportations.
Border Czar Tom Homan said in December that the White House will need $86 billion from Congress just to “start” mass deportations, with more likely necessary just to remove the number of illegal aliens who entered the United States during the last four years.
The Trump administration is doing all it can to deliver on its promises to voters, and voters must demand that Congress deliver the funding necessary to secure our border and deport those who have no right to legally reside in our nation.