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After Reelection, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Presses Forward with Operation Lone Star and Migrant Buses

After Reelection, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Presses Forward with Operation Lone Star and Migrant Buses

Operation Lone Star Secures Additional Funding

Operation Lone Star Secures Additional Funding

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Texas Conservatives Ramp Up Migration Row as El Paso Mayor Denies White House Pressure

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 21, 2022

The headline was startling. On Tuesday, the New York Post ran a front-page print story titled “Tex Mess,” claiming that President Joe Biden’s administration had strong-armed El Paso officials into not declaring a “state of emergency” over migrant arrivals. The story, which cited an anonymous official, quickly spread among Texas...
Gov. Abbott’s Migrant Buses Hit Roadblock as D.C. Attorney General Takes a Closer Look

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 17, 2022

Even as criticism has mounted, Gov. Greg Abbott has time and again doubled down on his program busing migrants to sanctuary cities. Now, the Texas Republican’s buses are reportedly facing another roadblock: the Washington, D.C., Attorney General’s office has launched an investigation. As first reported Friday by the Texas Tribune and...
Texas AG Ken Paxton's Billboard Criticizes Opponent Rochelle Garza for Doing Job as Lawyer

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 11, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ought to know how the law works. He’s the state’s top cop, has faced an indictment or two of his own and recently had his latest run-in with a service processor, from whom he reportedly fled. But on Monday, he bought a series of billboards...
Problems Just Keep Mounting for Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 10, 2022

Operation Lone Star has run up a $4 billion tab, but it's also racking up quite the corpus of criticism.
In Texas, a Migrant Was Shot Dead in Border Patrol Custody

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 6, 2022

On Tuesday, a Mexican citizen was shot and killed while being held in Border Patrol’s custody, prompting calls for a transparent investigation into the incident. The deadly shooting took place at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in El Paso, officials said in a press release. The incident came a week...
Feds: Texas Man Vowed to Kill Migrants, Jews, Black People, Beto O'Rourke Supporters and Cops

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 5, 2022

The way federal authorities tell it, Everett Wayne Copelin had a long list of people he intended to kill: migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Black people, Jews, federal agents and supporters of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke. In early September, the FBI learned of Copelin’s threats, which he made under...
The Key Highlights of the Debate Between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke

By Patrick Strickland
Oct 2, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, faced off in their first – and likely only – gubernatorial debate on Friday night. The televised debate took place at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Ahead of the event, news broke that Abbott’s campaign had...
Five Ways Gov. Greg Abbott's Controversial Border Clampdown Isn't Quite What He Claims

By Patrick Strickland
Sep 29, 2022

Since he launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promoted the controversial border crackdown as a state-led effort to do the federal government’s job. With November’s midterm elections almost here, the governor is promoting the border operation more and more. Operation Lone Star has proven...
Following Paxton’s Lead, Texas Republicans Lose It Over Bexar County Sheriff's Migrant Plane Probe

By Patrick Strickland
Sep 23, 2022

When the Bexar County sheriff held a livestream press conference on Monday, he didn’t hold back from letting everyone know he was angry. In fact, he said he was “furious” over a stunt last week that saw dozens of migrants recruited from Texas and shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. On...
Migrant Plane Investigation: Ken Paxton Accuses Bexar County Sheriff of 'Partisan Grandstanding'

By Patrick Strickland
Sep 21, 2022

To hear the state’s top cop tell it, he backs the blue harder than the blue’s ever been backed. But on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took a different tack. A day after the Bexar County Sheriff's Office announced it was investigating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant plane to...
Rights Groups Decry Gov. Greg Abbott's 'Political Stunts' as Texas Sends More Migrant Buses to D.C.

By Patrick Strickland
Sep 16, 2022

Gov. Greg Abbott has sent another busload of migrants north, this time to the Naval Observatory in D.C.
Fox Says Migrants Are 'Killing' Pets in South Texas, but Local Law Enforcement Has No Such Reports

By Patrick Strickland
Sep 15, 2022

On Tuesday, Fox News ran an especially alarming headline about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Eagle Pass. The way the report put it, locals had started arming themselves, in part, because, according to at least one resident, migrants had “killed pets” in town. The Fox report said that migrants were...
In Denton, Beto O'Rourke Blasts Greg Abbott over Border, Abortion and Power Grid

By Kate Pezzulli
Sep 8, 2022

Beto O'Rourke came to Denton again in one of the last stops on the Drive for Texas tour.
At CPAC, Migration Is an 'Invasion,' Communism Looms and Trump's the 'Most Persecuted' Man in U.S.

By Patrick Strickland
Aug 8, 2022

The three-day gathering in Dallas was an echo chamber of rightwing grievances and buzzwords.
'Political Games': Gov. Greg Abbott Buses Migrants to New York City

By Jacob Vaughn
Aug 8, 2022

First Washington, D.C. Now, New York City. Gov. Greg Abbott is busing migrants to Democratic-led cities in response to to President Joe Biden’s “open border policies.”
At CPAC Dallas, Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists Take the Mainstage to Applause and Fanfare

By Patrick Strickland
Aug 5, 2022

When U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s Dallas gathering on Friday, the crowd broke out in applause. Sara Carter, the right-wing journalist who interviewed Greene on stage, launched their discussion by offering the far-right Georgia representative a chance to address criticism that...
'Cause for Concern': Texas DPS May Be Racially Profiling Hispanics, New Report Says

By Simone Carter
Jul 29, 2022

The Texas Department of Public Safety is likely racially profiling Hispanics, per a recent report.
'Reckless and Dangerous': Texas Dems and Immigration Advocates Slam Abbott's 'Invasion' Rhetoric

By Simone Carter
Jul 14, 2022

Experts and advocates fear that Gov. Greg Abbott's continued border clampdown could contribute to violence against Latinos.
As Greg Abbott Brags of 'Turning Back' Migrants at Border, Operation Lone Star's in Hot Water

By Patrick Strickland
Jul 12, 2022

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott goes on Fox News, he’s not too shy to brag about his anti-migrant policies. On Sunday, he told the conservative news channel that Texas and the U.S. was enduring an "invasion driven by the cartels" on the southern border. "We've turned back tens of thousands...
Conservative Officials on Texas-Mexico Border Are Declaring an 'Invasion.' Critics Say There Isn't One.

By Simone Carter
Jul 6, 2022

Several local conservative leaders have declared an "invasion" at the Texas border, but critics say the move could carry deadly consequences.

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