Texas Now Has a Drone Fleet Nearly as Large as the US Border Patrol’s
Besides border surveillance, the state has also deployed drones to surveil First Amendment-protected activities.https://murica.website/2025/12/texas-now-has-a-drone-fleet-nearly-as-large-as-the-us-border-patrols/
From the @TexasTribune, the Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by federal authorities.
#Border #HarrisCounty #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #Politics #Texas #FIELHouston #OperationLoneStar #TexasDepartmentOfPublicSafety #TexasDPS #TrumpImmigrationPolicy
The Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by federal authorities.
→ Drownings and Deterrence in the Rio Grande
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/drownings-and-deterrence-in-the-rio-grande/
“In 2021, the state of #Texas launched a multi-billion dollar initiative to stop #asylum seekers from stepping foot in the #US, called #OperationLoneStar, erecting hundreds of miles of razor wire, floating buoys and other barriers. Meanwhile in #Mexico, the number of troops on its northern #border doubled by 2022.”
“We found at least 1,107 #people drowned crossing the #RioGrande between Texas and Mexico from 2017 to 2023 […]”
President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package includes roughly $13 billion to reimburse states for border security spending during Joe Biden’s presidency. Gov. Greg Abbott is hoping to secure the lion’s share of that funding for Texas.
#Border #Immigration #National #News #Politics #Texas #BigBeautifulBill #OperationLoneStar #PresidentJoeBiden #TexasGovernorGregAbbott #USDepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #USPresidentDonaldTrump
President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package, which he signed into law July 4, includes roughly $13 billion in funding to reimburse states that spent, or plan to spend, their own funds to deter illegal border crossings between January 2021 and January 2029.
Vehicle pursuits and the resulting "bailouts" played a major role in school officials' and law enforcement's response to the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. It leaves lasting consequences.
#CriminalJustice #Immigration #News #Texas #CarChases #DeadlyPursuits #OperationLoneStar #PoliceOfficers #Policing #TexasBorder #TexasDepartmentOfPublicSafety #USCustomsAndBorderProtection #Uvalde #UvaldeShooting
Vehicle pursuits and the resulting "bailouts" played a major role in school officials' and law enforcement's response to the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. It leaves lasting consequences.
Should the federal government pay back border states like Texas for money they independently spent on state-led border security and immigration enforcement efforts? Gov. Greg Abbott and several elected officials in the Lone Star State think so.
#Border #News #Texas #BorderSecurity #GregAbbott #JohnCornyn #OperationLoneStar #USCongress
Several members of the Texas Legislature are expressing their support after Gov. Greg Abbott asked the federal government to reimburse Texas for money it spent securing the border during the Biden administration.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed soldiers to the Rio Grande Valley on Monday to support U.S. Border Patrol personnel as part of his efforts to assist the Trump administration's border policies. The soldiers departed from Houston and Fort Worth.
#Border #Immigration #News #Politics #Texas #BorderImmigration #Government #GregAbbott #Migrants #OperationLoneStar #RioGrandeValley
The soldiers departed Monday from Houston and Fort Worth, marking 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.
Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the federal government for more than $11 billion in reimbursements to Texas for the costs of border security operations and wall construction during the Biden administration.
#Border #Immigration #News #Texas #BorderAndImmigration #BorderSecurity #FederalFunding #GovernorGregAbbott #OperationLoneStar #TexasBorderAndImmigration
Confirmed press, an investigative reporter AND a major newspaper, both looking at different aspects of the story, regarding the developments at #CampBlanding.
The area being used had been intended for #FLNG cooperation with #texas (no capitals, thanks) #OperationLoneStar when DeathShittis sent hundreds of FLNG soldiers to help with the scam of "guarding the border". The area, back then, was being eyeballed for a "camp" (ahem #ConcentrationCamp ) to keep any "illegals" (undocumented people, humans) for "processing".
My hope is, enough exposure and leaks may bring sufficient heat upon the various entities involved in this highly illegal use of Federal resources, that they back away from it, and a concentration camp does not happen nearby,
Fuck every MAGAt christofascist piece of shit ethnonationalist.
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