Texas Activates ‘Tactical Border Force’ Ahead of Illegal Immigration Surge at Border

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’s deployed a special border force just ahead of this week’s expiration of a public health order that turned back millions of illegal immigrants in recent years.
Abbott, a Republican who has been critical of President Joe Biden’s border policies, said that members of the newly minted Texas Tactical Border Force will be sent via Black Hawk helicopters to areas along the U.S.–Mexico border. The unit includes specially trained Texas National Guard members.
The border force, he said, will be sent to “hotspots all along the border to help intercept and repel large groups of migrants trying to enter Texas illegally.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration for allowing the Title 42 public health policy to end….}