Trump holding Oval Office meeting with Texas Gov. Abbott over 'securing the southern border'

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott meets astatine the White House connected Wednesday with President Donald Trump to sermon their efforts to beef up information on America's confederate borderline with Mexico.

"Governor Abbott is gathering with President Trump to sermon their continued concern successful securing the confederate borderline and keeping Americans safe," Abbott property caput Andrew Mahaleris told Fox News Digital erstwhile asked astir the Oval Office get-together. 

Ahead of his gathering with Trump, the three-term blimpish Lone Star State politician met with Tom Homan, the president's borderline czar.

TEXAS' ABBOTT MAKES MAJOR MOVE IN BORDER SECURITY BATTLE 

"Looking guardant to gathering with President Trump today. Earlier this morning, I spoke with Tom Homan astir migration enforcement strategies. Today, and the coming days, should beryllium large for Texas," Abbott wrote successful a societal media post.

It would beryllium hard to find different politician who has done much to support, and assistance instrumentality and endorse, Trump's hardline border security and migration agenda.

Texas, nether Abbott's leadership, has spent billions of dollars connected borderline information the past mates of years nether Operation Lone Star. And present the GOP-dominated legislature is proposing allocating an further $6.5 cardinal to instrumentality Trump's borderline and immigration agenda.

And this week, Abbott, successful an unprecedented move, gave Texas National Guard soldiers the powerfulness to apprehension undocumented immigrants successful coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Trump, speaking to an overflow assemblage of supporters gathered astatine the U.S. Capitol for his inauguration past month, praised Abbott.

"He's doing a large job. He's doing a phenomenal job, but present you're going to person a spouse that's going to enactment with you," Trump said.

And Abbott returned the compliment this past weekend, arsenic helium delivered his State of the State address.

"We person a president who volition spouse with Texas to contradict amerciable entry," Abbott said. "To enactment that mission, I person ordered Texas authorities agencies to assistance the Trump medication with arresting, jailing and deporting amerciable immigrants."