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Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion. 

Author:     Ariana Garcia
Source:     LMTonline
Publication Date:     April 22, 2022 | 11:47 a.m.
 Link: Gov. Greg Abbott truck inspections turned up zero drugs, migrants but cost Texas $4.2 billion. 
Stephan:   This report and the one that follows both illustrate something very important that every voter should comprehend. On the basis of objectively verifiable data, both demonstrate that Republicans are not governing on the basis of societal wellbeing. They are demonstrating authoritarian power and voters and their families should just suck it up. You vote Republican to your own damage. Another manifestation of the kind of thinking that caused hundreds of thousands to support the MAGAt death cult and give up their lives by not getting vaccinated or wearing a mask.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper directs commercial trucks near the Pharr-Reynosa International bridge on April 13, 2022 in Pharr, Texas. Credit: Michael Gonzalez/Getty

Gov. Greg Abbott increasing inspections of commercial trucks entering from Mexico in the hopes of staunching illegal smuggling activity resulted in zero migrants detentions or illegal drug seizures, despite allegedly costing the Lone Star State billions of dollars. 

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller stated in an email to supporters this week that the enhanced truck inspections cost Texas consumers and businesses an estimated $4.3 billion “despite not catching a single illegal alien or confiscating a single gram of illegal drugs.”

“However, Governor Abbott successfully persuaded Mexico states to enhance security on their side of the border,” Miller added. “Both of these things are true at the same time.” 

The Texas Tribune reports that over an eight-day period beginning on April 8, troopers conducted more than 1,400 truck inspections. Despite no drugs being discovered, troopers managed to take 850 trucks off the road for various equipment violations, including under-inflated tires, broken turn signals and oil leaks. 

The inspections also […]

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