AUSTIN – Texans for Greg Abbott released a new video ad featuring Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd highlighting Governor Abbott’s leadership to secure the border, combat dangerous drug cartels, and fight human trafficking.
In the ad, Sheriff Boyd delivers a firsthand account of the Biden Administration’s border crisis. He describes Governor Abbott’s decisive actions to secure the border versus Gina Hinojosa’s dangerous open-border policies that would give illegal immigrants voting rights, tax-payer funded healthcare, and weaker penalties for human traffickers.
“At every opportunity, Gina Hinojosa has chosen to defend violent illegal criminals instead of Texans. Under her rule, criminals would be free to wreak havoc in our communities – all on your dime. Governor Abbott took decisive action to safeguard Texas and secure our nation in the wake of the Democrats’ deadly border crisis. Hinojosa’s open-border policies are too dangerous for Texas.”
– Catherine Frazier, Texans for Greg Abbott Communications Director
Learn more about Hinojosa’s deplorable record at HypocriteHinojosa.com.
TRANSCRIPT:
The border was chaos under Joe Biden. I saw drugs, gangs, and cartels pour in. Crimes shot up. Governor Abbott’s common sense policies closed the border and gave us the tools to fight crime and keep you safe. Gina Hinojosa wants to return to Biden’s policies. She supports weaker penalties on human traffickers and giving illegal immigrants voting rights, even taxpayer-funded healthcare. Gina Hinojosa’s policies are too dangerous for Texas.
- Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has led to over half a million illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 72,000 criminal arrests, with more than 57,100 felony charges. Also, in Texas’ fight against the fentanyl crisis, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard, through Operation Lone Star, have seized more than one billion lethal doses of fentanyl – enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the Western Hemisphere.
- In 2017, Hinojosa voted against legislation banning sanctuary cities in the State of Texas. (SB 4, 85R)
- In 2021, Gina Hinojosa authored a bill that would have delivered taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants. (HB 602, 87R)
- In 2023, Hinojosa voted against major legislation to construct the Texas border wall and pay state and local law enforcement. (SB 3, 88(4))
- In 2023, Hinojosa voted against historic legislation creating a criminal offense for illegal entry into Texas from a foreign nation. (SB 4, 88(4))
- In 2023, Hinojosa voted against increasing criminal penalties for human smuggling and operating a stash house. (SB 4, 88(3))
- In 2023, Hinojosa voted against approval of HB 6 which authorized murder charges against drug dealers who provide fatal doses of fentanyl. (HB 6, 88R)
- In 2025, Hinojosa voted against creating a Homeland Security Division in the Department of Public Safety. (SB 36, 89R)
- In 2025, Hinojosa voted against a constitutional amendment that would have denied bail to illegal immigrants who had been charged with a felony or violent crime. (SJR 1, 89R)
- In 2025, Hinojosa refused to stand up for election integrity – she was absent for the vote to require in the Texas Constitution that voters must be United States citizens. (SJR 37, 89R)
