And the truth is that over the past several years, the state of Texas has spent billions on our border security efforts. And while we're spending billions separate and apart from what the federal government is spending, Illegal border crossings and fentanyl seizures are at an all-time high. Before we deploy a whole other unit to the border, I think we've got to figure out as a state how Effective have we been with the thousands of troopers and thousands of guardsmen and women deployed under Operation Lor? (04:22–04:39)
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Asserts that illegal border crossings and fentanyl seizures have reached record levels.
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