The bad old days along the U.S.-Mexico border were very, very bad. At its worst, in December 2023, U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered approximately 250,000 migrants trying to cross the southern ...

When Abbott first announced Operation Lone Star, 500 Texas National Guard members were sent to the border, and HB 9 funded a deployment of an additional 1,800 soldiers in September 2021.

Why two border counties are joining Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star after migration slows The counties hope to access state money to help pay for some criminal justice work, such as ...