Texas Governor Greg Abbott has proclaimed a state of calamity for relevant government agencies and border counties, noting the large amount of unlawful border checkpoints, and has begun a series of moves to cover in gaps that he says the Biden government has ignored on border security. The directions to build extra walls on the US-Mexico border, increase state law enforcement arrests of unauthorized immigrants, and withdraw the licenses of facilities in Texas that host unattended child migrants for the national govt are one of the most important issues in the state.