US EditionTexas stops providing new funding for border wall construction
- Texas has stopped allocating new funds for border wall construction along its 1,200-mile border with Mexico according to the latest state budget.
- This change follows the approval of a $3.4 billion border security budget that reallocates resources to Operation Lone Star and law enforcement agencies.
- Initiated by Governor Abbott in March 2021, Operation Lone Star involves a collaborative effort between state military forces and law enforcement agencies to detain undocumented immigrants.
- Governor Abbott asserts that Operation Lone Star prevented over 140,000 unauthorized border crossings and resulted in upwards of 50,000 arrests, while opponents argue that the border wall has not achieved its intended goals and has caused environmental damage.
- The state will sustain limited border barrier work with $2.5 billion from prior funds, but its focus now emphasizes enforcement and federal partnership rather than further wall construction.
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado PoliticsTexas stops funding US-Mexico border wall after finishing just a fraction of state wall
Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. In the final hours of this year’s legislative session,…
News Facts NetworkTexas Ends New Funding for Border Wall, Credits Trump’s Immigration Policy
Texas will no longer allocate new funds for building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, marking a significant shift in Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar immigration strategy. A newly approved state budget excludes continued funding for wall construction, though $2.5 billion in previously allocated money will sustain work on up to 85 more miles through…
Texas Quietly Defunds Its Border Wall Program
“Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border,” the Texas Tribune reports. “That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is co…
The Free Press (Tampa)
The Daily CallerTexas To No Longer Fund Border Wall As Federal Gov’t Looks To Assume Responsibility
Texas is no longer funding the construction of a wall along its southern border as state lawmakers have suggested that this responsibility will shift to the federal government. The move comes after years of aggressive spending under Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who during former President Joe Biden’s sole term in office announced the state would keep building President […] Texas To No Longer Fund Border Wall As Federal Gov’t Looks To Assum…
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