Greg Abbott has long saluted U.S. Border Patrol. Just a few years ago, he made it clear that he’d stand by them, even if the man in the White House did not. In September 2021, Joe Biden condemned a crew of Border Patrol agents on horseback in Del Rio, on the Texas border, for charging at a group of Haitian migrants. Abbott was disgusted when he learned the agents—who “risk their lives to secure the border”—were under official investigation. “I have worked side by side with those Border Patrol agents. I want them to know something: if they are at risk of losing their job . . . you have a job in the state of Texas,” he said on Fox News. “I will hire you to help Texas…
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