During a press briefing on Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) was asked about National Guard deployments as anti-ICE demonstrations spread to Texas.
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00:00Governor, National Guard deployments, can you tell us how many soldiers are being deployed and if these are preemptive deployments or if they're just purely on the sidelines until they're called in?
00:10First of all, we want to make sure that what has happened in California does not happen in Texas.
00:16Texas is a law and order state, and we will use every tool that we can to ensure order across our state.
00:23That includes the deployment of Texas Department of Public Safety Officers as well as Texas National Guard in strategic locations where they can provide the most robust response where needed.
00:34As it concerns the exact tactics and things like that, we don't disclose those publicly.
00:39You will see them arise in response to what we see on the ground.
00:43But not the numbers? You don't have the number of people that you've been deployed?
00:46I do, but I'm not going to tell you.
00:48Nothing personal. It's just that there are others outside of this room who would like to know that that I'm not going to tell them.
00:55Governor, more questions?
00:57Can you define what is crossing the line for those who don't know what is crossing the line?
01:03That leads to FAFO?
01:10Violating the law. You break the law, you cross the line, you will be arrested.
01:14I was a little bit clearer about this last night in my post, last night, and that is there is freedom of speech.
01:23However, if in your protest you damage somebody's property or you harm an individual, that's violating the law, and you will be arrested for it.