Op Lone Star: Gov. Abbott sends 400 National Guard troops to Texas border | US Immigration Crackdown

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed soldiers to the Rio Grande Valley to support U.S. Border Patrol personnel as part of his efforts to assist the Trump administration’s border policies. The soldiers departed from Fort Worth and Houston. The statement from the governor’s office explained that Abbott directed the Texas Military Department to coordinate with the Trump administration’s plans. It was a change from the Republican governor’s legal battles with the Biden administration. Abbott spent the last four years testing a state’s ability to enforce immigration law, at times at odds with Border Patrol. Now that Trump is in office, it appears that Operation Lone Star will be working in lockstep with the federal government. 'Texas has a partner in the White House we can work with to secure the Texas-Mexico border,' Abbott said in the statement.