Reuters / Yahoo News: Texas governor-elect Greg Abbott seeks federal funds to cover immigration costs [Nice going Governor, but when American citizens are robbed, assaulted, raped, murdered, hit by illegal DUI's or can't find a job because of the flood of illegal invaders, who is going to compensate them?]

Texas governor-elect seeks federal funds to cover immigration costs

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas has asked the White House for hundreds of millions of dollars illegal immigration has cost the state, Governor-elect Greg Abbott said on Monday, blaming President Barack Obama for not doing enough to secure the border.

Abbott, a Republican who takes office next month, met Obama last week shortly after he filed a lawsuit on behalf of states suing the administration over its executive order that eased the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants.

At a news conference in Austin, Abbott said he made the reimbursement request to two Cabinet members and a member of the president's staff, without offering further details. ...

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