Louisiana Gov Jeff Landry opens up about collaborative border security efforts with Texas on 'Fox & Friends'
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry made a notable appearance on the February 5 episode of 'Fox & Friends,' where he joined co-host Steve Doocy to discuss the collaborative efforts with Texas to bolster border security.
Landry was among the 13 Republican governors across the United States who had come together to offer their support to Texas, as the report at the beginning of the segment indicated.
Texas Gov Greg Abbott announced, "Texas is the only state in the history of America to build our own border wall… All that we want is to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."
How does Louisiana plan to help Texas?
Doocy exclaimed that the state of Louisiana plans to send the National Guard to Texas, before asking the governor to elaborate.
"Texas has always been a great big brother to the state of Louisiana. They've always helped us in our time of need, and now it's time for Louisiana to reciprocate that," said Landry.
"We're going to work with the legislative leadership. I was on the phone with them yesterday afternoon on my way back from Eagle Pass, to talk to them about finding the funding necessary to send National Guard troops down there to help Gov Abbott and the Texas National Guard seal the border."
"To do the job that President Biden and the Democrats are responsible for doing right now since they are in control of the Senate," he added.
"I mean it's absolutely ridiculous," he continued. "Our immigration laws are meant to allow people to come into the country in an orderly fashion. And what they have done is basically blown a hole in the border and just said, 'Anybody can come in,' and they're not even screening who's coming in."
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There was a noteworthy decline in the number of apprehensions of illegal migrants from December 2023, which recorded 71,048, to the subsequent month of January 2024, where the figure significantly dropped to 16,709.
"After they leave Texas, they have to go somewhere. How many of the migrants are going to Louisiana?" asked the co-host.
"We've got a problem in Louisiana as well," responded Landry. "And most of the problems center around those that come into the country to basically conduct criminal activity."
"We know that a large portion of those that are coming in are conducting criminal activities. Fentanyl is pouring across the border, It's affecting all of our communities."
"In the city of Kenner, which is next to New Orleans, the Chief had already well-documented the fact that illegals in the city of the Kenner are basically recruiting the young juveniles who came into the country illegally, to basically become criminals," he added.
