Operation Lone Star 2.0: Texas Becomes a “Migrating State-Police” · Global Voices

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Operation Lone Star, or Lone Star, began as a Texas strategy to stop the entry of migrants across the southern border during Joe Biden’s presidency. Four years later, it has become a detention machine that reinforces the immigration hunt unleashed by the Donald Trump Administration. Now, under a new version 2.0 of Lone Star, as several experts have called it, Texas has assumed a role that belonged to the federal government: over 3,100 undocument…