Operation Lone Star

Texas law enforcement and the National Guard have every right to hold the Rio Grande line because federal policy left the state with 2.47 million southwest border encounters in fiscal year 2023. The priority now is sustained enforcement, not more promises from Washington.

Texas spent billions, arrested thousands of trespassers, and turned Eagle Pass from a crossing hot spot into a controlled sector. Other border states should follow the model instead of waiting for a federal government that profits from paralysis.

The southwest border is quieter today because state and federal enforcement finally came before amnesty negotiations, not because Washington fixed the law. Mass deportations, wall construction, and National Guard deployments have done what years of hearings could not.