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,

According to the Texas Tribune, the decision to end Texas' border wall funding was made in the last few hours of the legislative session. During "Operation Lone Star," Texas spent around $3 billion to build more than 64 miles of barriers along our southern border with Mexico.

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,