Blurring the line between criminals and immigrants is at the core of Gov. Greg Abbott's approach. Texas OperationLoneStar GregAbbott Immigration SouthTexas TexasRepublicans asylum SouthTexas
of Governor Gregg Abbott's Operation Lone Star , a joint mission between the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to catch and jail as many"illegals" — their words, not ours — as possible.
."They're being brought over by criminal enterprises and are also in the process of committing legal violations that we have a duty to enforce."“The goal of Operation Lone Star is to criminalize migrants and then transfer them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation,", a staff lawyer for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center."The purpose of getting them to plead guilty is to have this conviction on their record" should they apply for asylum.
"The most significant threat Texas faces today is an unsecured international border with Mexico, bar none," he testified last week."There's nothing ISIS has done that the cartels haven't done, in terms of brutality and torture."
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