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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Orders State Police to Return Asylum Seekers to Border

HeadlineJul 08, 2022

In Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott has ordered state National Guard soldiers and state law enforcement officers to apprehend and expel asylum seekers who cross the U.S.-Mexico border — a move immigrant justice advocates have denounced as illegal. This comes as ProPublica and The Texas Tribune report the Justice Department is investigating alleged civil rights violations under Operation Lone Star, a multibillion-dollar immigration and border crackdown ordered by Abbott last year. The program has seen thousands of asylum seekers arrested and jailed — sometimes for weeks — and often without facing charges.

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