Gov. Abbott takes action to secure US-Mexico border ahead of Title 42 expiration: 'More to come'

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state is taking border security into its own hands after pleas to the Biden administration have gone unanswered.

In a video shared to Twitter late Monday evening, the Republican governor showed that border officials in Brownsville, Texas, laid barbed wiring across a gap in the border that was previously exposed for migrants seeking entry from Mexico into the United States.

"This is one thing Texas is doing to secure the border," Abbott wrote. "This is the area near Brownsville where migrants were crossing in large numbers a few days ago."

In the video, the person carrying the camera and a flashlight walks briskly along the border and pans over to show hundreds of feet of the spiral wiring. In some areas, the wiring is stacked to create a partition several feet tall.

Abbott added: "We now have it wired shut. Other areas will surface for crossing. We will wire them shut also."

"More to come," the Texas governor promised.