Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, has cost Texas $11 billion so far. The plan was supposed to make border...
Texas Highway Patrol officers ride past migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024.The goal was to make border crossings more difficult by installing razor wire and other physical barriers along the Rio Grande and, further inland, to arrest suspected undocumented migrants for trespassing and other state criminal charges.including the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, to support the operation.
The money has paid for more than 100 miles of razor wire, more than 45 miles of a state-built border wall, and a 1,000-foot-long buoy barrier on the Rio Grande. The operation also has bused more than 119,400 migrants from Texas to six Democratic-run cities across the country and built a military base near Eagle Pass to house Texas National Guard soldiers.
More than 522,800 migrants had been apprehended under Operation Lone Star as of Oct. 3, including 47,640 criminal arrests — 11,890 for trespassing.Abbott has vowed to continue his focus on border security. “Texas will not back down in our fight to secure the border from illegal immigration, dangerous criminals, and deadly drugs,” he wrote in a September social media post that included video of border wall panels being installed in Maverick County in South Texas.Aarón is an Austin native who previously covered local government for The Kansas City Star and high school sports for the Knoxville News Sentinel. He is a University of Texas graduate, and Spanish is his first language.
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