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In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
Through Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers have been deployed to the Texas-Mexico border since March 2021.
The Texas House and Senate budget proposals, which were unveiled last week and are still being developed, would allocate about $6.5 billion for additional state border security measures — a ...
The analysis further states regarding the Tucson sector that, "Actual border interdictions numbered 320,000, but internal non-border checkpoint interdictions numbered 1,800. This means the number of interdictions per agent at the actual border was 116, but the number of interdictions per agent at internal non-border checkpoints was only 8."
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border.
The US southern border had long struggled with implementing policies that aim to prevent immigration-related tragedies. With a decline in unlawful immigration from Mexico, the crisis predominantly concerned increased immigration from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), encompassing Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott surged additional Texas military resources to the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) to assist President Donald Trump with his border security efforts. Abbott ...
The Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR) is one of two police tactical units in the Special Operations Group, under the United States Border Patrol (USBP). The unit is trained in emergency search and rescue, medical evacuation (medevac), and tactical emergency medical services (TEMS) response in hazardous environments.