Two-and-a-half years after Abbott launched Operation Lone Star, Texas has appropriated nearly $10 billion in tax money and deployed thousands of state troopers and National Guard members in its ...

Why Operation Lone Star is both expensive and politically popular for Gov. Greg Abbott In less that three years, Gov. Abbott's immigration initiative has swelled into an $11 billion enterprise ...

Critics of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star have attacked it from every angle, as ineffective, unnecessary, illegal or all of the above. What's clear from on-the-ground reporting is ...

Operation Lone Star, the state’s massive and unilateral border enforcement effort that was created in 2021, was given 87 awards totaling $55.7 million.

It’s a novel move for Operation Lone Star to construct barriers between another state. But while Texas migrant encounters have been dropping, they’ve been rising in New Mexico.

Operation Border Health — the weeklong no-cost clinic that serves more than 1,000 Laredoans ever year — was canceled in 2025, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers are prepared to spend billions to continue funding Operation Lone Star despite the dramatic drop in unlawful border crossings. The Texas Senate recently passed ...

After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in 2021, the governors of Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska answered his call to tackle crime and illegal immigration along the state’s border ...

On Wednesday, federal inmates occupied 106 beds and state detainees arrested through Operation Lone Star occupied 322 beds in the jail, which can hold nearly 3,000 inmates, he said. “It really ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – El Paso County is asking the State of Texas for millions of dollars to cover the cost of jailing individuals arrested through Operation Lone Star. County ...

In terms of Operation Lone Star, I think there's also a recognition that some of these efforts are not the best in terms of deterrence. And that sort of rubs people the wrong way." ...