Governor Greg Abbott announced that the Texas National Guard would begin operations to turn back migrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande.
The announcement followed discussions on the accomplishments of the Operation Lone Star border security mission.
“Now we have come up with a more effective strategy for preventing them from even getting into the country to begin with,” the governor announced. “There’s a new category called ‘turnbacks.’ We’re working on strategies that will turn back people that are trying to make it across.” The governor said the first year of Operation Lone Star, the state-initiated border security mission involving the Texas Department of Public Safety and Military Department, led to the apprehension of thousands of migrants — many of whom would have gotten away with sneaking past Border Patrol agents.
Abbott said that working with local law enforcement, “we have not been able to cut in half, the number apprehensions of people coming across the border illegally in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.”
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