Abbott has taken the idea of Texan independence and confrontation with the federal government to new levels during his tenure.
Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott was an early endorser of former President Donald Trump for president in 2024. The Lone Star State has been a political thorn in the side of a White House controlled by a Democrat, mainly through its challenging of federal authority by launching scores of lawsuit and spending billions on a state border security program that frequently challenges federal primacy on the mandate of who controls the border and who controls the flow of immigration.
As part of his efforts to put a Texas-sized brand on border security, Gov. Abbott has convinced lawmakers to authorize about $11 billion over a four-year period. The spending has deployed thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers to the border and moved hundreds of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to patrol the region. It covers the logistics and overtime to pay for the long hours of patrol along with hotel stays for out-of-town staff.
It has created a busing program that moves migrants from smaller, less well-resourced border cities to so-called"sanctuary" cities in Democratic Party strongholds, like New York City, Washington, D.C., often without notice or coordination with the recipient cities. Fuentes and a chorus of other locals have been vocal about their weariness of what they say is the militarization of their hometown.
"Along with Operation Lone Star, we have, we are able to get more personnel," said Kinney County Sheriff's Deputy Liz Aguirre.
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