Four years ago, after authorities in San Antonio found 53 immigrants dead in a trailer in San Antonio, Governor Greg Abbott knew exactly whom to blame. “These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott posted on social media about the then-president, going on to say that “deadly open border policies” encourage migrants to risk life and limb taking the dangerous journey to the United States through Mexico.
Abbott’s implicit pitch was that if he and his ally Donald Trump, since returned to the presidency, were given a free hand to secure the border, these types of tragic incidents would stop.
