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Governor Abbott bashes Biden over border battle with story of Houston murder victim Jocelyn Nungaray during RNC speech

HOUSTON – In his first big primetime television moment, Texas Governor Greg Abbott took the stage Wednesday night at the RNC convention, bashing President Joe Biden and his border policies as well as taking credit for using the Texas National Guard to keep more people from coming into the state from Mexico.

“When Biden took 50 acres of Texas border property to illegally process up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day, I directed the Texas National Guard to take back our land and wire it shut,” Abbott said.

SEE ALSO: GOP-led states have pledged hundreds of troops and spent millions of dollars to help Texas secure the border this year

He also accused the president of “welcoming into our country rapists, murderers, even terrorists.” Governor Abbott talked about Houston murder victim, Jocelyn Nungaray, who was strangled to death, her body bound and left in a creek.

Raped and murdered by two illegal immigrants. She’s one of thousands whose lives have been destroyed by Joe Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said. “To make matters even worse, Biden is even fighting tooth and nail to stop Texas and other Republican states from securing our own borders.”

MORE: At half a mile a week, Gov. Greg Abbott’s border wall will take around 30 years and $20 billion to build

Two men from Venezuela are accused in Nungaray’s murder. They were both working with a local construction company and had been drinking at a local bar for hours, prosecutors say, before meeting Nungaray at a convenience store just after midnight on June 17.

A woman spotted Jocelyn’s body in a creek off West Rankin Road around 6:15 in the morning.

SUGGESTED: Sen. Ted Cruz introduces new act honoring Jocelyn Nungaray that would enforce detention, tracking of illegal migrants

Abbott’s speech ended with a call to bring former President Donald Trump back to the White House.

“It is time to secure our nation by returning Donald Trump as president of the United States of America.”


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