The estimated $4 billion Texas has spent on the border includes $1 billion in federal...
A Texas National Guardsman stands on the U.S. by a boat ramp on the Rio Grande near the international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. The ramp was the only area not secured with concertina wire and where migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico can safely cross. In the background, a group of migrants attempted to cross but were turned away by Mexican officials and soldiers.
State troopers called from vital duties elsewhere are just as bored. From Brownsville upriver to Del Rio and alongside highways leading northward out of the Rio Grande Valley, the black-and-white SUVs are ubiquitous. With little else to do, some 1,600 troopers at any one time are either stopping motorists and truckers for broken-taillight-style traffic violations or they’re parked, often in pairs, every quarter mile or so.
The inspector general of the U.S. Treasury Department opened an inquiry into Abbott’s fiscal sleight of hand a day after U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, and Valerie Escobar, D-El Paso,If the inspector general agrees that the money doesn’t satisfy the rules placed on its use — the money was meant to repay public funds used to help Texans stay healthy during the pandemic — then Uncle Sam may ask for the money back.
Of course, those are rhetorical questions. Vying for a third term, the governor has a campaign to run.
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