(The Center Square) – On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott and incoming border czar Tom Homan met and served meals to Texas Army and Air National Guard soldiers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers (DPS) stationed along the border during Thanksgiving working through Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.
The governor and Homan met with OLS officers in Eagle Pass and Edinburg, Texas. They were joined by National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez, DPS Director Steve McCraw, Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer and Texas Border Czar Mike Banks.
At the event in Edinburg, Abbott said their deployment to the border “was truly unprecedented. Things that have happened in the last four years have never before happened in the history of the United States of America.” The troops were providing “an unprecedented response to an unprecedented threat,” referring to the greatest number of illegal border crossers reported in U.S. history under the Biden administration…