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The Texas Senate Committee on Border Security has raised questions about the ongoing costs of Abbott's Operation Lone Star on the border. Texas has spent $11 billion since 2021 on Operation Lone Star.
March 27, 2024 at 8:00 AM. By Daniel Wiessner and Ted Hesson. (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court has kept on hold a Republican-backed Texas law that would let state authorities arrest and prosecute ...
Operation Lone Star (OLS) is a joint operation between the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department along the United States–Mexico border in southern Texas. The operation started in 2021 and is ongoing. According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the operation is intended to counter a rise in illegal immigration, the ...
She added that Texas' border security effort, dubbed Operation Lone Star, gives her county a critical lifeline, especially for law enforcement. It has paid for the addition of two sheriff's deputies.
The U.S. Border Patrol made more than 1.7 million arrests of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in fiscal year 2021, the highest number ever recorded. [48] [49] More than 7.2 million migrants total were encountered between January 2021 and January 2024, and there were over 1.5 million "gotaways" between fiscal year 2021 and 2023.
The US-Mexico border fence near El Paso, Texas. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 authorizes the construction of 700 additional miles (1,100 km) of double chain link and barbed wire fences with light and infrared camera poles. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109–367 (text) (PDF)), also labelled H.R. 6061, is an act of the United States ...
A new law that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime is sowing confusion and uncertainty among undocumented migrants and mixed status families along the US-Mexico border, according to ...
In October 2019, in a separate case, a U.S. district court in Texas found that the El Paso County, Texas and the Border Network for Human Rights had legal standing to challenge Trump's attempt to divert $3.6 billion in military construction for wall construction along the Mexico border, and in December 2019, the court issued a permanent ...