The U.S. Homeland Security Secretary specifically called out the state’s policy of busing migrants to cities in other parts of the country.
Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, speaks about border issues with Laura Barrón-López, correspondent for PBS News Hour, at The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, TX on Sept. 6, 2024.U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas criticized Gov. Greg Abbott ’s immigration enforcement policies at The Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, saying his policies are unprecedented and have sometimes caused havoc.
In March 2021, Abbott announced Operation Lone Star. This state mission has deployed state troopers and state National Guard soldiers to different parts of the 1,200-mile-long Texas-Mexico border to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. The Texas Legislature last year approved a law known as SB 4 that would allow police in Texas to arrest people who are suspected of crossing the Rio Grande illegally from Mexico into Texas.
Mayorkas said Texas busing migrants to other cities without coordinating with those city officials is “incomprehensible to me from the point of view of responsible governance.”Texans need truth. Help us report it.In 2022, the state also conducted secondary inspections of commercial trucks at the Texas-Mexico border, resulting in delays for Mexican truckers trading with the U.S. The secondary inspections were done after immigration officials already inspected the trucks.
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