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.
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.”
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.
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.”