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Governor Abbott on Thursday highlighted Texas National Guard Boat Response Teams in Eagle Pass stopping a group of individuals attempting to cross illegally into Texas. Photo: Texas Military Department

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AUSTIN, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard continue to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry.

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 513,700 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 44,000 criminal arrests, with more than 38,600 felony charges. In the fight against the fentanyl crisis, Texas law enforcement has seized over 489 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States and Mexico combined during this border mission.

Texas has also transported:

Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administrations refusal to secure the border. Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Joe Bidens open border policies.

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM OPERATION LONE STAR:

WATCH: Governor Abbott: President Biden Is Doing Nothing To Secure The Border

Governor Abbott joined Maria Bartiromo on Fox News earlier this week to discuss President Bidens new border executive order that will do little to stem the flow of illegal immigration into the country. The Governor criticized the new policy that invites more migrants to illegally enter rather than secure the border.

The people need to understand that what Biden has done is not do anything to actually secure the border, said Governor Abbott. In fact, its the opposite because [President Biden] is actually authorizing more people to cross the border illegally. As long as the Biden Administration refuses to provide any type of enforcement, any type of blockage, of people crossing illegally, all that this new Biden policy is going to do is to actually attract and invite even more people to cross the border illegally. Ever since the Biden order went into place, theres no slowing down of people crossing the border. In fact, its just accelerating.

Governor Abbott: President Bidens Open Border Policies Endanger American Lives

On X, formerly known as Twitter, Governor Abbott shared an article on Tuesdayreporting that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency arrested eight individuals who crossed the border illegallywith ties to the terrorist organizationISIS.

The Governor noted that President Bidens reckless open border policies are endangering American lives by allowing dangerous criminals and terrorists into our country.

Governor Abbott: Texas National Guard Repel Illegal Immigrants In Eagle Pass

Governor Abbott on Thursday highlighted Texas National Guard Boat Response Teams in Eagle Pass stopping a group of individuals attempting to cross illegally into Texas.

The Governor reaffirmed Texas ongoing mission to deter and repel illegal immigration into the state.

Governor Abbott: Texas Historic Border Mission Decreases Illegal Immigration In Texas

Earlier this week, Governor Abbott spotlighted an article reporting illegal border crossings in Texas have significantly deceased since the launch of Operation Lone Star in 2021.

Texas has seen a 74% decrease in illegal crossings due to the states unprecedented border security efforts.

WATCH: DPS Arrests Two Human Smugglers In Brooks County

Earlier this week, a DPS trooper stopped a Dodge Challenger on FM-755 in Brooks County. During the traffic stop, DPS troopers observed three individuals unrestrained in the back seat and determined that the driver and passenger, both from Rio Grande City, were involved in human smuggling. Additionally, DPS troopers discovered three more illegal immigrants in the trunk of the vehicle who were showing signs of dehydration.

The driver and passenger were both charged with six counts of smuggling of persons. Six illegal immigrants were referred to Border Patrol.

WATCH: DPS Arrests Teen Smuggler During Traffic Stop In Webb County

DPS troopers requested assistance from a Border Patrol K9 during a traffic stop on IH-35 in Webb County. The K9 alerted to the rear part of the vehicle, where DPS troopers discovered three illegal immigrants.

The driver, 17-year-old Jose Luis Garcia, from Laredo, was charged with smuggling of persons. All three illegal immigrants, from Guatemala, were referred to Border Patrol

DPS Arrests Jordanian National For Criminal Trespass In Maverick County

A 22-year-old Jordanian national, Mohammad Saher Mohammad Nofal, was among a group of 131 illegal immigrants arrested by DPS troopers in Maverick County for criminal trespass this week. In addition to Nofal, the group included 83 other males and 47 females from Columbia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

All 131 illegal immigrants were transported to the Val Verde Processing Center.

WATCH: Texas National Guard Constructs New Barriers To Stop Illegal Crossings

Texas National Guard soldiers continue to utilize every available tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal border crossings. In El Paso, First Lieutenant Ronan Kelley with Task Force West highlighted a new, innovative cheval de frise style border barrier soldiers are utilizing along the border. The barriers are being placed in drainage areas by Texas National Guard soldiers to impede illegal access into Texas.

CDF stands for cheval de frise, said First Lieutenant Kelley. We picked [CDF] because its a large barrier. This will prevent the [concertina] wire from getting washed in the [Rio Grande River] while still providing an obstacle to slow down [illegal immigrants] from entering the United States.

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In the latest alarming national security incident, eight suspected terrorists with ties to ISIS were arrested on immigration violations in a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with the FBI Joint Terrorism TaskForce.

All eight are Tajikistan illegal aliens who crossed the southern border last spring, including at least one who used the CBP One app. The illegal aliens went through the screening process by U.S. officials, but nothing immediately turned up, and as typical under the Biden administration, they were released into thecountry.

After the suspected terrorists were already allowed to roam free in the U.S., derogatory information was flagged regarding potential terrorist ties. This incident echoes a similar story of an Afghan illegal alien who should have been detained by DHS but was released from custody twice. He had suspected ties to ISIS but was not flagged during screening at the border, and the information only came to light after he was released into thecountry.

Part of the investigation into the Tajikistan illegal aliens was a wiretap in which one of them could be heard talking about bombs, saying, Remember the Boston Marathon [bombing]? Im afraid something like that might happen again orworse.

The Tajikistani illegal alien is not alone in the feeling that a horrific attack may be imminent. Just last week, FBI Director Wray told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, Weve seen the threat from foreign terrorists rise to a whole nother level after October 7. Over the past eight months, Wray has repeatedly sounded the alarm about threats against the security of the United States that have seemingly fallen on deafears.

The Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) took responsibility for a terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow, Russia, and FBI Director Wray says, Increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland that issimilar.

The leadership of President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas has overseen a record number of terror watchlist encounters at our borders, and it is almost certain that an unknown number of national security threats are among the at least 1.8 million known gotaways who have entered the country without beingencountered.

Instead of using detention beds to detain these eight illegal aliens, they were released into the country in spite of the fact that they hailed from a country that is known to be a hotbed of Islamist terrorism. It seems almost weekly that Americans hear a story about illegal aliens who exploited open-borders policies getting busted inside the United States for terrorist ties, attempting to breach a military base or committing violent crimes.

The signs are there that something is going to happen, but our open-borders leaders are asleep at the wheel. The arrest of eight illegal aliens with ties to ISIS is precisely the kind of situation Director Wray has warned about. It seems this group knew each other before crossing the border, and the United States is incredibly fortunate no attack was carried out by them. It also raises questions about how many more potential terrorists have slipped through the net because the default policy is to release illegal aliens into the country unless officials find immediate evidence that they pose a threat to nationalsecurity.

The porous southern border is a national security threat. It may only be a matter of time before some horrific attack happens on U.S. soil, and if the attackers enter the country illegally under President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas, their policies will be responsible for allowing it to happen.Eight Illegal Aliens with Ties to ISIS Arrested Inside theU.S

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A Polish soldier is dead, after being stabbed by an illegal migrant making an attempted incursion from the territory of neighboring Belarus. This incident represents a dangerous escalation of a hybrid war that has been ongoing on the eastern flank of NATO since 2021. Russia and its close ally Belarus have demonstrated the national security threat unchecked immigration can pose and its potential to be exploited and weaponized by hostile regimes to destabilize countries and societies they wish to undermine. In fact, the use of mass migration to pressure rivals is an emerging tactic in international relations known as instrumentalizedmigration.

As FAIR recently explained, the tactic either sends migrants in mass towards an opponent and/or refuses to stop them heading there, and also has been used by countries as diverse as Mexico, Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia. Nor is it a new tactic. Fidel Castro periodically unleashed waves of migration to the United States, both as a way to rid himself of dissidents and dump his criminals onto the beaches ofFlorida.

On May 28, 21-year-old soldier of the Warsaw Armored Brigade, Mateusz Sitek, tried to stop a group of illegal migrants attempting to break through the border barrier from Belarusian territory into Poland. Sitek attempted to use his shield to block the illegal entry, but was stabbed in the lung by the migrant. The migrants then lobbed stones and branches at the wounded soldier and a female border guard attempting to help him. He succumbed to his injuries a week later, causing an uproar in Polish politics only days before the elections to the European Parliament in which mass migration became a key issue. Another border guard was also recently struck in the head by an illegal migrant wielding a large and heavy tree branch, putting him in the hospital with seriousinjuries.

The U.S.-Mexico border and the Mediterranean Sea route (mainly into Spain and Italy) have been traditionally associated with large-scale illegal migration. The 2015 migrant crisis also saw the Balkan route via Greece, the Balkans, and Hungary towards Germany loom large on the radar. For the countries on NATOs eastern border such as Poland, the Baltic, states, and Finland mass illegal migration remained a largely abstract issue that happened elsewhere until 2021, when the pro-Russian dictator of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, began flying in mainly Middle Eastern migrants and directing them towards the borders of his NATO rivals. Vladimir Putins Russia has similarly weaponized illegal mass migration against Finland in 2023 to punish that nation for its decision to joinNATO.

The previous Polish government of Mateusz Morawiecki took a tough stand against the crisis which included attempts to storm the border and throwing objects at border guards including by erecting border barriers and pushing back attempts by illegal migrants to rush the border. His successor, Donald Tusk, spent two years attacking and denouncing his predecessor and his allegedly inhumane border security approach. After coming to power as the leader of a coalition of liberal and left-wing parties in December, Tusk ultimately retained his predecessors tough talk on the issue and also acknowledged Russias role. However, the new speaker of the parliament, Szymon Hoownia, invited a group of illegal migrants to the Polish parliament in December, and rules governing the firing of warning shots at the border also seem to have been severely but quietly tightened by the new government. As one journalist asked on X: Prior to December 2023, soldiers guarding the Poland-Belarus border used firearms and fired warning shots during aggressive attacks by migrants. The law did not change, so whatchanged?

The scandal caused by the fatal stabbing of the soldier was compounded when the public learned that, between March and April, three Polish soldiers were arrested by the military police for firing warning shots at migrants attempting to storm the border. This happened in the vicinity of where the soldier would be stabbed. The arrested soldiers were suspended and their pay was cut in half. What the tragic incidents on NATOs eastern flank demonstrate is that any signs of weakness will be detected and exploited both by dangerous illegal migrants and hostile regimes that use them to their ownadvantage.

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In late April, near my home in Tampa, a woman from Guatemala and her four-year-old daughter were brutally killed with a knife and a shovel by the womans live-in boyfriend. The alleged killer, described in the press as a Florida man, apparently killed his girlfriend because she returned home late from an outing with friends.

You would think that CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and other prominent media outlets might cover this story. You would also assume that progressive legislators and groups that purport to care about women, immigrants, and domestic violence would highlight the case, condemn the horrific attack, and demand action to protect women. Those are reasonable assumptions, but they dont apply here.

Instead, this story has been mostly cabined to right-leaning media. The reason? The accused killer, Angel Gabriel Cuz Choc, came to the United States illegally in September 2023 from Guatemala, where he was wanted for murdering two other people, according to U.S. Border Patrol.

Those facts explain why only four national news outlets covered the story:Newsweek,People, Huffington Post, andCBS News. None admitted that Cuz Choc had entered the countryillegally, or followed up when news broke that he was wanted for two other murders in Guatemala. In its opening sentence, HuffPo ridiculously referred to Cuz Choc as a Florida man.

Left-wing and mainstream outlets ignore, downplay, or outright lie about these types of stories to preserve the narrative that illegal immigrants are all innocent strivers, fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries. But what about those, apparently like Cuz Choc, who flee because they committed violence in their home countries and plan to commit more crimes here?

Occasionally, crime stories involving illegal immigrants become too big for the media to ignore, like the case of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia student kidnapped and murdered in February, allegedly by another recently arrived illegal immigrant with a criminal record. When they are forced to cover such incidents, the corporate media often cite misleading academic studies asserting that migrants commit fewer crimes than Americans. These studies are often bogus; some include legal migrants (such as IT professionals from India), instead of focusing on illegals, and all use unreliable data, since police in most states dont track offenders immigration status.

The press rarely asks the president and other high-ranking officials responsible for our effectively open border to defend the policies that produced these preventable crimes. Joe Biden was forced to address the Riley murder only because Marjorie Taylor Greene heckled him during his State of the Union address. Biden got her first name wrong, calling her Lincoln, and infuriated his base by referring to her suspected killer, accurately, as an illegal. He quickly pivoted to say, But how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals? as if that would comfort Rileys family.

Unlike Laken Riley, Cuz Chocs alleged victims, Amalia Coc Choc De Pec, 36, and her four-year-old daughter, Estrella, wont become household names. Progressives, who otherwise often note the unequal treatment afforded white and nonwhite victims, havent had much to say about this disparity. Indeed, left-wing elites and their media allies have proved repeatedly that they dont care about minorities killed by illegal immigrants. The press were uninterested in the case of Ariana Funes-Diaz, a 14-year-old girl who, in 2019, was stripped, beaten with a baseball bat, and stabbed to death with a machete by a pair of teenage MS-13 gang members with criminal records. Neither were they interested in the five Latino victims, three female, killed in 2023 by Francisco Oropesa, an illegal immigrant with five previous deportations.

Cuz Choc says he came to the U.S. illegally, with the help of a coyote. We dont know if he was a got away (an alien who snuck in unlawfully and undetected), or if he was paroled into the country. Given the presss lack of interest in the case, we may never find out.

Ive traveled to 80 countries and have met many more good people than bad ones in the developing world. But migrant advocates are foolish to think that we can import without consequence large numbers of lawbreaking migrants from places that dont respect womens rights.

This attitude was recently displayed by a nave but entertaining English YouTuber named Benjamin Rich, whose channel, Bald and Bankrupt, has more than 4 million subscribers. A few months ago, Rich produced a series of viral videos in which he traveled north from Mexico to our border with migrants hoping to sneak into the country, repeatedly emphasizing along the way that they were swell people whom we should be happy to welcome. Like other good progressives, he never mentioned the possibility that mixed in with the nice people were pedophiles, killers, rapists, and ordinary men who hold their home countrys retrograde beliefs about women.

If we want to protect women like Laken Riley and Amalia Coc Choc De Pec, we should restrict male immigration from countries that compel female subservience, or practice female circumcisions, child-bride arranged marriages, or polygamy. This wont happen, of course, because the media and left-wing activist shops that claim to care about immigrants and women really care about advancing progressive policy agendas. To those groups, women like Amalia Choc de Pec and her daughter may as well be collateral damagevictims whose killers were members of a preferred tribe.

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OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond vowed to defend a law making illegal immigration a state-level crime after the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to sue Oklahoma if the law is enforced.

In late April, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 4156 into law, making illegal immigration a state level crime.

The bill will go into effect July 1.

On May 15, the Department of Justice sent a letter addressed to Stitt and Drummond, saying the United States will sue unless Oklahoma agrees to not enforce the law.

In the letter, the Department of Justice claimed the bill intrudes into a field that the federal government has authority over, citing the Arizona V. U.S. court case.

In recognizing that well-settled power, the Supreme Court has explained that immigration policy can affect trade, investment, tourism, and diplomatic relations for the entire Nation, as well as the perceptions and expectations of [noncitizens] in this country who seek the full protection of its laws. Id. at 395. It is fundamental that foreign countries concerned about the status, safety, and security of their nationals in the United States must be able to confer and communicate on this subject with one national sovereign, not the 50 separate States. Id, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton wrote in the letter.

To that end, Congress has established a comprehensive scheme governing noncitizens entry and reentry into the United States, including penalties for unlawful entry and reentry, see 8 U.S.C. 1325, 1326. HB 4156, however, seeks to create a separate state immigration scheme by imposing state criminal penalties for violating the federal prohibitions on unlawful entry and reentry. HB 4156 therefore intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted, Boynton continued.

The Department of Justice also claimed the bill interferes with parts of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

For example, it interferes with the federal governments ability to enforce the entry and reentry provisions of the INA, and it effectively seeks to regulate noncitizens unlawful presence in the United States. HB 4156 likewise improperly regulates the international movement of persons in violation of the Foreign Commerce Clause and undermines the United States foreign relations, Boynton said.

However, Drummond said because the federal government is failing to handle illegal immigration, Oklahoma had no choice but the pursue the law.

Acquiescence to this intolerable situation is not in my states DNA; neither is surrender, Drummond wrote. As such, HB 4156 represents a meaningful, common-sense, and legally permissible step toward addressing and correcting that which the Biden Administration has willfully refused to enforce the last 3.5 years.

Drummond also said the Department of Justices argument is dubious at best and the federal governments broad authority overall immigration does not mean they have exclusive power on the subject.

In any event, HB 4156 does not create a separate immigration system for Oklahoma. This is not even close. Rather, Oklahoma is exercising its concurrent and complementary power as a sovereign state to address an ongoing public crisis within its borders through appropriate legislation. Put more bluntly, Oklahoma is cleaning up the Biden Administration's mess through entirely legal means in its own backyardand will resolutely continue to do so by supplementing federal prohibitions with robust state penalties. In short, Oklahoma has moved to protect its sovereigntynot in contradiction of federal law, but in complete compliance with it. The laws under challenge here do not extend or revise federal immigration restrictions, but merely enforce those restrictions more effectively. Arizona, 567 U.S. at 437 (Scalia, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), Drummond wrote.

Drummond also emphasized that racial profiling is not a component of enforcing HB 4156.

I emphasize that racial profiling of any sort is not only unacceptable under any circumstances, but also illegal in Oklahoma. To detain someone who looks, sounds, or acts foreign is itself un-American and will never be tolerated by this office, Drummond wrote.

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