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 ...

When asked about Operation Lone Star, a US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said the agency doesn’t have a “a role or partner in any way with Texas DPS on Operation Lone Star.” ...

It’s a critically important question that should worry all Texans as Operation Lone Star drags into its seventeenth month. Launched in March 2021 and touted by Abbott as a plan to stop drugs and ...

Operation Lone Star is a border security initiative launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in March 2021 in response to rising border crossings, which he blames on President Joe Biden’s immigration ...

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 ...

They did that to fund Operation Lone Star in 2021, and increased the program’s budget just a few months into Joe Biden’s presidency.

The survey includes responses from nearly 250 members of Task Force South, one of six units that fall under the umbrella of Operation Lone Star — Gov. Greg Abbott’s unprecedentedly large ...

Operation Lone Star has helped fund the miles of concertina wire and militarization along the U.S. border. But how are funds invested in communities more than 80 miles north of the border?

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.

TEXAS, USA — State Rep. Eddie Morales was the only democratic joint author of the bill that started Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border security plan. That was back in ...

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." ...