Texas Governor Greg Abbott has shared his plans to build "barriers" along the state's southern border with Mexico.
Abbot announced the project as part of a press conference at the "Border Security Summit" in Del Rio, and promised to delve into the logistics of the plan sometime in the near future.
"We have to build a border [wall]. I've been down here talking to the people in the Rio Grande Valley and the way they are being overrun is reprehensible," Abbott told Fox News on Thursday. "It's disastrous what the Biden administration has done."
In his first month as President, Joe Biden halted construction works on the border wall between the US and Mexico, which was one of former President Donald Trump's most controversial policies.
The move by the Democratic president has been slated by a number of Republican politicians, per MailOnline.
"The ability to arrest will be enhanced by building border barriers. Some of these border barriers will be built immediately, and whenever anybody tries to modify, attempt, or get through any of these border barriers, that in itself is a crime for which they can be arrested," Abbott continued.
He went on to say: "President Trump had adequately secured our border. He had the 'Remain in Mexico' policy and began building the border wall and now suddenly all of that disappeared and […] it has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people coming across the border.
"But it's not just unaccompanied minors, it's people who are causing great damage and harm to the residents right here in Del Rio as well as up and down the entire border."
Earlier this month, the governor issued a disaster declaration for 34 counties along or near Texas' border with Mexico.
He explained that the reason for this was Biden's "open-border policies [that] have paved the way for dangerous gangs and cartels, human traffickers, and deadly drugs like fentanyl to pour into our communities."
Abbot continued: "The Biden administration has abandoned any pretense of border security, any pretense of enforcing our immigration laws.
"They've laughed it off, just in the exact same way that the vice president laughed it off in her interview the other day, and so it is a joke to the Biden administration.
"They completely don't care about the border at all, and they try to brush it aside as much as they possibly can. They ignore it. They haven't come here, they haven't talked to us, they don't want to do anything for us. They're fighting us every step of the way."
