Texas Refuses Biden’s Request to Help With COVID-19 Testing at Border

'We will not aid a program that makes our country a magnet for illegal immigration'

Texas Governor Greg Abbott during a press conference at the state capitol in Austin, Texas, on March 29, 2020. Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced he is refusing a Biden administration request to help test and potentially quarantine illegal immigrants for the CCP virus at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a statement, the Republican governor said that border security is “strictly a federal responsibility.”