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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a new billboard campaign Thursday to warn of the potential illegal immigrants on the “horrific” reality of human trafficking, the violence and danger they face if they try to enter the US illegally
Abbott said the state is putting up dozens of billboards with warnings in several languages across Mexico and Central America.
“We are here to expose the truth to the immigrants who are thinking of coming here, the truth about the traffickers who assault so many of the women and children along the way.” said the governor. “The message is: don’t risk a dangerous journey just to be arrested and deported.”
Abbott, who recently made another trip to the border with the incoming frontier czar Tom Homanhe also stressed that the new Trump administration “will prioritize for deportation illegal immigrants who have been detained.”
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A billboard posted by the state of Texas warns illegal immigrants that they will be arrested. (Fox News Digital)
The billboards will be written in Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic, and will be placed next to each other migrant travel routes.
The governor made his announcement at a ranch on the southern border. It was next to a burnt “rapeseed tree”, where the owners have said migrant women were routinely raped. Abbott said the billboards “tell the horror stories of human trafficking” and “inform potential illegal immigrants about the reality of what will happen to them if they try to enter Texas illegally.”
A billboard written in Spanish depicts a girl and asks simply: “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?”
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Another depicts a pregnant woman and says, “Your wife and daughter will pay for the trip with their bodies.”
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Abbott criticized governments and private groups that “make it seem like it might be harmless to come into the state of Texas” and said the state is trying to “provide real facts to immigrants who are thinking of coming here to save their lives, to save them from sexual assault, save them from arrest, and let them know there are consequences if they take further steps to come to the state of Texas.”
“This is tough medicine, but we don’t want any more canola trees in Texas,” Abbott said. “Don’t make the dangerous trek to Texas.”
The governor continued to lament the historic increase in illegal immigration under the Biden administrationsaying, “It’s a deadly situation, a horrible situation, a horrible situation that we hope will end in about a month when President Trump takes office and closes the border and restores security and normalcy to the immigration process “.
