Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers:
Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations
Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
17 December 2021
theintercept.com
Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations
Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
17 December 2021
It was early November when Marianna Treviño Wright saw a convoy of National Guard members in Humvees speed past the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas. Shortly thereafter, Treviño Wright, the center’s director, began to see soldiers with assault rifles patrolling nearby and along the banks of the Rio Grande. “They have this aggressive posture with the rifles across their chests,” Treviño Wright said. “We cruise the river four or five times a week on our boat and have not seen anything that would indicate an increase in [migrant] traffic or any sort of increased threat. … So the question ...
Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations
Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
theintercept.com