After pouring more than $4 billion dollars into Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security...
to stop Republican policies, have criticized the spending as wasteful, arguing it does little to deter border traffic or stop drug smuggling that mostly occurs at ports of entry.
To fund Operation Lone Star, Republican lawmakers increased border security spending from $800 million to over $4 billion during the first two years of Biden’s presidency. “Republicans in the state Legislature, and the Republican state leadership, are feeling somewhere in the vicinity of zero pressure to reduce border security spending,” said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project.a $1.8 billion package
Morales, whose district spans more than 770 miles of the Texas-Mexico border, floated the idea of allowing asylum seekers to enter through Texas’ border land ports in exchange for a state fee. The goal, he said, would be deterring migrants from instead paying cartels and human smugglers to help them cross illegally.
House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, has also appeared uneasy about Texas’ border security spending, saying in a recent speech that lawmakers, “as stewards of every budget dollar,” must “ensure our strategy not only fits the realities on the ground, but is truly, measurably effective.”
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