Texas Scorecard by Sydnie Henry March 8, 2022
Border Security Testimony Displays Discrepancy Between State Needs and Federal Policies
“Our obedience to the law is being leveraged against us.”The Texas Senate Committee on Border Security held a hearing Tuesday to gather testimony on Operation Lone Star—Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative—from Director Steven McCraw of the Texas Department of Public Safety, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, as well as the Office of Court Administration and the Legislative Budget Board.
Committee Chairman Brian Birdwell (R–Granbury), during his discussion with Director McCraw, concluded that there are no consequences for illegal border-crossers in roughly 90 percent of law enforcement encounters based on the numbers presented to him.
McCraw acknowledged that while there are nuances involved in that rough statistic, which makes it incomplete, the gist of it is correct.
“I don’t know how much worse it can get,” confirmed McCraw.
Due to the dissemination of information via social media regarding the Biden administration’s tacitly open border policy to people around the world, the staggering numbers of illegal border-crossers are uncontainable by Operation Lone Star without federal due diligence.
“We can’t force the federal government to do the right thing,” said McCraw.
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