Texas Launches Billboard Campaign in Mexico and Central America to Caution Migrants About Risks of Journey to the U.S|

Abbott declared that dozens of billboards will be erected in Mexico and Central America to inform migrants of the risk posed by crossing the border.

“Your wife and daughter will pay for the trip with their bodies. Coyotes lie. Don’t put your family at risk,” one of the billboards says.
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Over 40 billboards will go up in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico and along the Texas-Mexico border, the governor’s office says. The first billboards under the roughly $100,000 campaign went up Wednesday.

The billboards will be in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

The governor announced the plan at Wall Ranch in Eagle Pass.

Kimberly and Martin Wall say women trying to cross the border illegally were sexually assaulted on their property.

“It makes you terrified to go out of your own house and enjoy your own property,” said Kimberly Wall. “You don’t know if you’ll be attacked by one of the men hiding in the brush. We all want a better life for everybody.”

Governor Abbott spoke next to a burned tree where Wall said coyotes sexually assaulted a woman and hanged their clothing from a tree.
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During the visit, Gov. Abbott also talked about President-elect Donald Trump’s plans at the border.

The governor said Trump will begin deportations on day one and plans to expand the wall along the border.

“We’d be more than happy to build the wall as long as the federal government pays for it,” said Abbott.

Abbott says Texas will be hand-in-hand with the Trump administration to fight those problems at the border.write this in another word