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Lieutenant Locklar and others were recognized with a Unit Citation for their work with the Border Security Operations Center (BSOC) and the six Joint Operations Intelligence Centers (JOICs) from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2021.
In October 2005, Texas Gov. Rick Perry traveled to the border city of Laredo and announced Operation Linebacker, a new initiative that he said would protect the state’s residents from terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Without pointing to evidence, Perry said such terrorist groups, along with drug cartels and gangs, were attempting to exploit the U.S.-Mexico border. A press release from the governor’s office said Perry warned that after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, criminal organizations could “import terror, illegal narcotics and weapons of mass destruction.”
A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority.
Illegal immigrants are escaping capture at more than double the pace of a year ago, according to Texas figures that show the surge of migrants being caught at the border is just a part of the problem the Biden administration is facing.
Trafficking on the southern border continues. and in usual texas style, that state's governor says if the feds aren't doing a good enough job, he'll do it himself. starting a new program with the border patrol called operation drawbridge. to secure the southern border netting major drug busts and stopping countless would be immigrants. the fight on the border mirrors the fight in federal court. taking on the obama administration for executive action on immigration and so far, texas is winning. greg abbott joins us here now. we had the arguments in the federal court of appeals. we have the inju...