EDINBURG, Texas — Former President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott served an early Thanksgiving meal to a number of legislation enforcement officers and Texas National Guard troopers serving the border area as a part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The former president and Abbott are slated to ship remarks to a crowd of Texas Rio Grande Valley officers and border residents later Sunday.
The former President’s go to to South Texas comes on the heels of a go to to Houston earlier in November for a marketing campaign rally. Trump presently holds a commanding lead in opposition to his Republican major opponents forward of the state’s March 5 major election. Trump’s go to comes because the Texas border with Mexico has seen unprecedented ranges of migrant crossings in latest months.
EDINBURG, Texas — Former President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott served an early Thanksgiving meal to a number of legislation enforcement officers and Texas National Guard troopers serving the border area as a part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star on Sunday, November 19, 2023.
Abbott has made an annual custom serving of Thanksgiving meals to troopers and legislation enforcement officers at a number of areas throughout the state’s U.S./Mexico border. The troops are the newest deployment underneath Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Since March 2021, the operation has augmented legislation enforcement patrols by Texas Department of Public Safety Highway troopers and Texas Army National Guard troopers alongside its U.S./Mexico boundary. The multi-agency border safety operations embody further troopers and legislation enforcement personnel from different states as nicely.
The operation has resulted in additional than 480,000 migrant arrests by state authorities since launching. The initiative contains enhanced legal trespass prosecutions for migrants discovered by authorities on personal property. According to the state, collaborating legislation enforcement companies have made practically 40,000 legal arrests for a number of legal violations on the border.
Former President Trump and Governor Greg Abbott with Texas Border Security Forces. (Texas Department of Public Safety)
According to Abbott’s workplace, the elevated legislation enforcement and army presence between ports of entry alongside the border have resulted within the seizure of greater than 426 million deadly doses of fentanyl through the ongoing mission.
A controversial part of Abbott’s border technique includes busing migrants to sanctuary cities throughout the nation. Thus far, Abbott has bused greater than 40,000 migrants launched by Customs and Border Protection in Texas border cities to Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.
Abbott’s has up to now bused greater than 23,000 migrants to New York City alone inflicting consternation between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Texas Governor. As reported by Breitbart Texas, Adams asserts Abbott “primed the pump” for the arrival of hundreds of migrants outdoors the busing program. According to Adams, New York City has spent greater than $1.45 billion through the 2023 fiscal yr and anticipates the migrant disaster will price town greater than $12 billion by 2025.
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd stated that President Trump stayed within the hangar and shook the arms or took selfies with each trooper and Guardsman who needed to greet him.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served because the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for 9 Border Patrol Stations inside the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border staff’s affiliate editor and senior information contributor. He is an authentic member of the Breitbart Texas staff. Price is an everyday panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning discuss present. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.
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