For Immediate Release
Texans For Greg Abbott Presents: “Open Borders”
AUSTIN – Today, Texans For Greg Abbott released its next television ad of the general election cycle entitled, “Open Borders.” The ad features Sheriffs discussing the fentanyl crisis, how it is smuggled into Texas at the southern border, and Beto O’Rourke’s support for President Biden’s open border policies. There is also a Spanish version of the ad. Both ads will run statewide. Click HERE to watch the latest TV ad.
Transcript For “Open Borders”:
SHERIFF BILL WAYBOURN: “There’s a clear and present danger in neighborhoods like this. It’s deadly fentanyl and it’s killing our kids. How’s it getting here?”
SHERIFF RAY DEL BOSQUE: “Right here, through our border.”
VO: “This year alone, law enforcement has seized enough fentanyl in Texas to kill millions.”
CHYRON: “Operation Lone Star Has Seized Over 300 Million Lethal Doses Of Fentanyl”
- KVUE-TV Headline: “Operation Lone Star Has Seized Over 300 Million Lethal Doses Of Fentanyl, Gov. Abbott Says” (KVUE-TV, 4/22/22)
CHYRON: Beto O’Rourke Supports Open Borders
- In July O’Rourke Said He Wanted A Legal Pathway For “95 Percent Plus” Of The Illegal Immigrants Seeking To Come Into The United States. O’ROURKE: “We’re going to make sure that there is a safe, legal, orderly path for people to come here (to the United States) if they want to work, if they want to join family, if they’re seeking asylum and cannot go back to their country from which they came. When we take care of that, and that is 95 percent plus of those trying to come into the country right now. When we find that legal, safe, orderly path for them, that problem is off the table.” (Beto O’Rourke, Remarks, Beaumont, TX, 7/30/21)
CHYRON: Beto O’Rourke: Border Is “A Problem We Do Not Have”
- O’Rourke Said The Border Is A “Problem We Do Not Have.” “The spot shows O’Rourke telling an audience, ‘We don’t need any walls to solve a problem we do not have.’ That follows news footage of hundreds of migrants wading across the Rio Grande near Del Rio.” (John C. Moritz And Madlin Mekelburg, “Beto O’Rourke Announces Campaign For Texas Governor,” Austin American-Statesman, 11/15/21)
CHYRON: Not A Problem
VO: “Drug cartels.”
CHYRON: Drug Cartels
VO: “Human traffickers.”
CHYRON: Human Traffickers
VO: “The most dangerous border in the world.”
CHYRON: US-Mexico Border Declared ‘World’s Deadliest’
- Fox News Headline: “US-Mexico Border Declared ‘World’s Deadliest’ By United Nations” (Fox News, 7/5/22)
CHYRON: Beto O’Rourke/Too Radical/Too Dangerous For Texas