Texas Took On Border Security. Is It Working?

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🗓️ 24 July 2023

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For two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has inundated the U.S.-Mexico border with thousands of state troopers and National Guardsmen and started work on a state-controlled border wall. He also built a new skeleton justice system with its own courts, judges and jails to lodge misdemeanor state trespassing charges against migrants. WSJ’s Elizabeth Findell discusses Operatio n Lone Star and whether or not it’s been successful. Further Reading: - Texas Spent Billions on Border Security. It’s Not Working. - Texas Trooper’s Email Describes Migrant Injuries at Southern Border Further Listening: - What the End of Title 42 Means for U.S. Immigration Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our colleague Elizabeth Fendell covers Texas. And recently, she was in a town called
0:10.7	Eagle Pass, about two and a half hours west of San Antonio, right on the border with
0:15.9	Mexico. I would love for you to describe what you saw at the border when you were there.
0:24.2	In Eagle Pass right now, they are trying to create an impenetrable barrier to migrants attempting
0:34.7	to cross the river there. They have national guard soldiers there, they have helicopters in the
0:43.7	air. They have dozens of state troopers who are patrolling at any given moment trying to locate
0:51.7	migrants to convince them not to come across the river. It's so striking to see the extent of
1:00.4	the law enforcement presence there and the militarization, the amount of land that's been clear
1:06.8	cut, the amount of razor wire that's fronting the river. This is Operation Loan Star. It's a
1:14.4	major effort by the state of Texas to prevent illegal border crossings. It is wide-ranging, it affects
1:22.8	many people, it affects a lot of different portions of law enforcement and it's very expensive.
1:29.4	No state has ever tried to take control of federal border operations to this extent.
1:40.0	Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business and power. I'm Jessica Mendoza. It's Monday,
1:49.9	July 24th. Coming up on the show, Texas is taking border control into its own hands. Is it working?
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2:48.4	Operation Loan Star started in 2021. It's the brainchild of Greg Abbott, the Republican
2:54.8	governor of Texas. We began Operation Loan Star to do the job that Washington would not do.
3:01.2	Within weeks of taking office, President Biden turned our southern border into a porous mess,
3:07.2	where illegal. He has made Operation Loan Star and border security really a central part of his
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