ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

Analysis: Abbott’s border initiative is expensive, ineffective and not as tough as it sounds

The results of the state’s $3 billion border security effort don’t match the up-front promises, and Gov. Greg Abbott is flipping the political script with loud opposition to a change in federal border policy.

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune
Posted 4/8/22

Caring more about politics than about people is apparently easy, once you get the hang of it. Gov. Greg Abbott wants to bus undocumented immigrants to Washington, D.C., to display his opposition …

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