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19, 2021. (Texas Military Department/Facebook) The Texas National Guard is massively expanding its state active duty mission at the U.S.-Mexico border, with “thousands” of troops already there and “thousands more on the way” via unit-level involuntary mobilizations, Texas ...
“This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas military department personnel in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and more efficiently,” Abbott said. Abbott said the camp will improve living conditions for soldiers who are deployed to the U.S.-Mexico bo...
“The Texas Military Department continues to hold the line in Shelby Park to deter and prevent unlawful entry into the State of Texas,” the agency said in an unsigned statement Tuesday. “We remain resolute in our actions to secure our border, preserve the rule of law, and pr...
Because Operation Lone Star is a state-run, state-funded mission conducted on state active duty, the Texas Guard personnel on the border are not eligible for many of the benefits traditionally associated with military service. That includes the G.I. Bill, the Veterans Affairs home loan...
five times the initial deployment. And by November, that number would grow to 6,500. (Abbott has said the operation has a full deployment of about 10,000 service members, but that includes thousands of Texas Military Department personnel who support the mission from elsewhere, like ...
The Texas Military Department responded that the claims they blocked access to federal agents were "wholly inaccurate." "At the time that Border Patrol requested access, the drownings had occurred, Mexican authorities were recovering the bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these facts to the...
“I have no objections to them being on the border,” he said. “But I certainly have concerns with military presence at private ranches. It would be a waste of time and of resources. There’s better use of the National Guard on the border, not in the interior.”...
Michael Perry, a spokesperson for the Texas Military Department, which oversees the state National Guard, said the actions taken by the state were designed to prevent illegal crossings by migrants. "The Texas National Guard has maintained a presence with security points and temporary barrier in S...
Spc. Bishop E. Evans, 22, was an artilleryman. He joined the Texas Army National Guard in 2019. (Texas Military Department via The Texas Tribune) It’s not clear why the equipment wasn’t requested until February, 11 months after the mission began in March 2021. For m...