AUSTIN (AP) — The lieutenant governor’s plan to spend $60 million to quickly ramp up security along the Mexican border won’t likely happen until September, raising accusations by his primary opponents that his urgent call for a border enforcement surge was politically motivated.
Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who’s facing the toughest re-election campaign of his 11 years in office heading into Tuesday’s primary, vowed in December to seek a swift funding boost for enhanced patrols along the Texas-Mexico border. At the time, he said the payout would happen as soon as possible.