Attorney General Alan Wilson joins 27-state coalition supporting Texas border defense barriers

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — Today, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 26 other states in an Iowa- and Utah-led letter to the Biden Administration, supporting Texas’s border defense. 

“Every state is a border state, and we’ve seen that with drug gangs that are tied to Mexican cartels operating here in South Carolina,” Attorney General Wilson said. “Texas is just trying to protect its citizens and those in our state, too.”

Since President Biden took office, more than six million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border—roughly the population of Iowa and Utah combined. But even worse than turning a blind eye to the unprecedented invasion at the southern border, including record illegal immigration, a flood of deadly drugs, an influx of human trafficking, and increased encounters with members of the terror watchlist—the Biden Administration has actively made the crisis worse. In just one month, Border Patrol agents acting on the Biden Administration’s orders cut Texas’s border defense wires more than 20 times. In one case, they even used a forklift to raise the wire and usher in more than 300 illegal aliens.  

Since the Biden Administration has failed to do its job and secure the border, states like Texas have stepped up to protect their citizens. A federal district court found that Texas’s border defense wires reduced illegal border crossings by more than two-thirds. Those barriers protect not just Texans from millions of illegal border crossings, but the rest of the nation. 

The states demand that the Biden Administration either enforce the laws that secure the southern border or allow states like Texas to stop the invasion themselves. 

South Carolina joined the Iowa- and Utah-led letter, along with Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the Arizona State Legislature.  

You can read the letter here.