Operation Lone Star

The ruling from the Louisiana-based judge comes less than three days before the Biden administration was scheduled to lift the policy, known as Title 42. It was originally put in place at the beginning of the pandemic by the Trump administration.

Texas has been using coronavirus relief money to help pay for the multibillion-dollar deployment.

The governor issued a joint statement with the president of the national border patrol union that blasts Biden for giving “critical supplies to illegal immigrants.”

History shows there are few governors who have attempted to make immigration central to their campaigns, and it has worked — in the short term.

The trial included four prosecutors, and so many potential jurors were summoned the town sandwich shop was shorthanded for lunch. But a Kinney County jury Monday convicted a Honduran national in the first jury trial for trespassing under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.

The request comes after Gov. Greg Abbott announced last month that Texas would divert about $500 million from state agencies to fund the controversial border mission.

State officials freed up cash for Operation Lone Star with the help of federal funds meant to respond to the coronavirus crisis.

Critics have said that a lack of guidance and equipment to perform life-saving rescues leaves soldiers dangerously unprepared to deal with a common scenario on the border while dehumanizing the migrants attempting to cross the river.

The 15 plaintiffs want a federal judge to declare Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border mission unconstitutional.

As reporters investigated Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative, they repeatedly found situations in which Abbott and Department of Public Safety officials cited accomplishments that lacked crucial context or did not match reality. Here are a few examples.

Specialist Bishop E. Evans, a 22-year-old was a field artilleryman from Arlington. He joined the Texas Army National Guard in 2019.

The policy known as Title 42 is set to expire in late May but Paxton is asking for an immediate halt to the pending termination.