“Every state is a border state”, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin responded, when, in April 2022, Texas governor Greg Abbott and his then-counterpart in Arizona, Doug Ducey, asked Republican governors nationwide to contribute to border security.

With the consequences of surging illegal immigration and massive Fentanyl deaths felt throughout the country, 26 governors pledged support.

From Joe Biden’s first day in office, the U.S. Border Patrol agents have toiled through an historically high number of encounters with migrants on the southern border in recent years: 1.7 million in fiscal year 2021, a record topped the next year when agents recorded 2.2 million encounters.

In fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30, the “official number” checked in at 2 million encounters.

Texas launched their Operation Lone Star in early 2021, spending a staggering $4.5 billion in the first two years of the program.

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to:

• over 480,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions

• more than 35,700 criminal arrests, with more than 32,500 felony charges reported.

• Texas law enforcement has seized over 434 million lethal doses of Fentanyl so far.

Texas has also bused:

• Over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C. since April 2022
• Over 21,800 migrants to New York City since August 2022
• Over 17,200 migrants to Chicago since August 2022
• Over 3,200 migrants to Philadelphia since November 2022
• Over 5,100 migrants to Denver since May 18
• Over 1,000 migrants to Los Angeles since June 14

“Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Biden’s open border policies.”

The effort is a monumental goal trying to slow what one Texas county sheriff deems a “silent invasion” across the border of military men, many armed, whom officials know work for Mexican drug cartels.

Just last year, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe observed, his deputies made 3,045 arrests for smuggling, compared with just 67 the year before.

These numbers are just a fraction of the total number of illegals; the county’s security cameras recorded some 21,500 people crossing the border last year without getting caught.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ignores the explosions in local social spending dealing with the migrant invasion.

In a 2021 lawsuit filed by Texas against the Biden administration after it froze deportations of illegals, the state listed $850 million of extraordinary costs due to illegals. More than $579 million of this was annually at public hospitals for uncompensated medical care and more than $30 million in prenatal care.

Texas also reported spending about $150 million a year on incarcerating criminal migrants, and up to $63 million to educate unaccompanied immigrant minors now domiciled in the state.

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