Inside Operation Lone Star

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In the post-Trump era, some red states have moved aggressively to rebuke the Biden administration at the local level and signal to voters what a Republican-led country might look like. In Texas, immigration is a key battleground. Today, we speak to Hunter Schuler, a member of the National Guards, about why Gov. Greg Abbott has sent him and thousands of other security officers to the U.S.-Mexico border. Guest: Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a Times Opinion podcast host; and J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	All right, so starting a 265 mile drive from Kyle, Texas to Zapatitexis, GPS says it's
0:15.8	going to take about four hours and 17 minutes.
0:20.0	Here we go.
0:24.2	Sometimes we'll just zone out.
0:32.5	Zone back in and realize that 45 minutes have gone by and pass through three towns.
0:37.2	Don't remember any of it.
0:42.9	Little under two hours to go now.
0:46.2	A lot of a lot of trees once you get this far south.
0:55.0	Just a lot of a ski brush, shrubbery, and dirt, plenty of dirt.
0:59.7	And police too.
1:02.0	State troopers line the highways heading to the border.
1:13.3	Next after 6 p.m. now, pulling into the gate.
1:17.3	We've got hescoes at the gate.
1:19.7	It's big green things you fill with sand.
1:24.2	Appreciate it.
1:27.2	All right, thank you.
1:30.2	They make it look like a forward operating base on a war zone with the hescoes and the
1:36.3	barbed wire, spotlights.
1:39.6	I got to get ready for work.
1:44.1	Show you.
1:45.1	I guess I'll sign off now.
1:58.5	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
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