Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called President Biden 'cold-hearted' when it comes to the crisis at the southern border.
"If it weren't for the 4 billion we just put in our new budget, 4 billion, that's bigger than some state's entire budget to protect our own border, which, by the way, if you stretched it out, 1,200 miles, would go from Atlanta to Maine. That's how much we have to protect because this president is not. We deal with it every day."
Patrick said,"This president is one cold-hearted SOB. I don't curse, that's son of a biscuit. But when you don't care about your own citizens dying of fentanyl. When you don't care about a humanitarian crisis of women and children coming to this country, being raped and put into indentured servitude, when you don't care about law enforcement on the street having to deal with criminal gangs and losing their lives, this is one cold-hearted president. He doesn't care.
"They don't like the buoys we put in the water. Guess what, we put them in to save people from drowning, drownings are down. This president doesn't care about anyone. Total socialist, Marxist government, they say they care about everyone, but they care about no one. They don't care if people die to achieve their political purpose."
In defense of the buoy barrier – which was installed on the Rio Grande in July near the border city of Eagle Pass – Gov. Greg Abbott said it was erected to prevent a
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