Earlier this year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott appeared on the radio show of former National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch to discuss Operation Lone Star, his $11 billion border crackdown. “We are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” Abbott boasted. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”Not everyone shares Abbott’s sense of restraint. National Guard troops participating in Operation Lone Star have shot across the border on at least two occasions, wounding two people. Vigilantes riled up by immigrant bashing have committed mass shootings across the state and country. In 2019, a white supremacist from the Dallas suburb of Allen shot…
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