Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the deployment of hundreds of National Guard members to the border with Mexico to deal with an expected massive increase in immigration flows, denouncing the “chaos” he says Democratic President Joe Biden is causing. .

The US federal government will move at the end of the week to remove “Title 42”, a measure of a health nature that was put in place when the pandemic of the new coronavirus occurred and allowed the immediate repatriation of immigrants who crossed the US land borders – not excluding asylum seekers.

“With the end of Title 42 on Thursday, President Biden is rolling out the red carpet” for immigrants “from around the world,” Mr. Abbott said in a news release released by his administration.

The governor, like most Republicans, does not stop attacking President Biden for his immigration policy. The opposition claims that it made the border with Mexico a strainer.

Mr. Abbott announced that he was mobilizing military helicopters, drones, UAVs, and “specially trained soldiers from the Texas Tactical Border Force” to be deployed “to border hot spots to help stop and repel large groups of migrants who would are attempting to enter Texas illegally.”

After “Title 42” is lifted, the US government plans to prevent the crossing of the border by immigrants with a range of measures, but border cities are already expecting the arrival of thousands of immigrants trying to reach the US as early as Friday.

The cities of El Paso, Brownsville and Laredo have declared local states of emergency to increase the resources they can devote to dealing with the immigrants already present, mostly people from Latin America. In El Paso, hundreds of people are sleeping on the streets, many on pieces of cardboard.

The Biden administration, in anticipation of the end of Title 42, deployed 1,500 additional troops to support the 2,500 at the border tasked with assisting border police.