JD Vance tells Republican convention ‘people who govern this country have failed and failed again’ – as it happened

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In his speech to the Republican convention, Greg Abbott gave a strenuous and well-received defense of his state's forays into immigration enforcement, and vowed to keep up his controversial practice of bussing migrants from the state to cities nationwide.

When Biden took 50 acres of Texas border property to illegally process up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day, I directed the Texas National Guard to take back our land and wire it shut," Abbott said, in an apparent reference to a legal clash between the state government and the Biden administration earlier this year.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refused to even come to Texas and to see the border crisis that they created. I took the border to them. I began bussing illegal immigrants to Washington DC, and we have continued bussing migrants to sanctuary cities across the entire country, and those busses will continue to roll until we finally secure our border.