Fact check: Bad neighbor? New Mexico governor criticizes Texas for securing her border

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(The Center Square) – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently expressed outrage over “Texas’ latest move” installing barriers in an area where they have been for nearly one year.

A KRQE News report claims Texas Army National Guard troops were erecting concertina wire fencing along the Rio Grande River near El Paso “on the riverbank that faces not Mexico, but New Mexico west of El Paso.”

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