Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his intention to build a wall on the border with Mexico to stop the crossing of migrants into the United States. The barrier would be approximately 800 miles long,

Texas has installed only a fraction of the hundreds of miles of potential barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. In the final hours of this year’s legislative session,