Author: Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – A Missouri delegation is focusing on border security after being briefed with an Operation Lone Star Task Force led by Goliad County, Texas, Sheriff Roy Boyd. The delegation, led by state Sen. Jill Carter, R-Granby, met with members of the task force and visited areas of operation in the Rio Grande…

(The Center Square) – More than 1,000 miles from the US-Mexico border, Nebraska is grappling with illegal border crosser crime and local communities have been impacted by a surge of foreign nationals. Immigration, both legal and illegal, is not new to the rural town of Fremont, with roughly 27,000 residents located roughly 45 minutes from…

(The Center Square) – Eleven states, led by Texas, have sued the three largest institutional investors in the world for allegedly conspiring to buy coal company stocks to control the market, reduce competition and violate federal and state antitrust laws. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Tyler…

(The Center Square) – A 28-year-old man in Houston, Anas Said, has been indicted and arrested on charges he attempted to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a federally designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). U.S. Attorney Alamdar Hamdani and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas Williams Jr. announced the details of…

(The Center Square) – After Republicans swept many state legislative seats on Election Day, Gov. Greg Abbott said he had more than enough votes to pass school choice in the next legislative session. That and property tax reform, he’s said, are his top priorities for the Texas legislature to consider when they convene in January. Lt. Gov.…

(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety troopers working through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to arrest “special interest aliens,” primarily men from countries of foreign concern. That includes Iran, a U.S. State Department designated State Sponsor of Terrorism. Texas DPS first sounded the alarm about increasing arrests…

(The Center Square) – The first U.S. attorney general in history to be held in criminal and civil contempt by Congress has targeted Republican justices on the Texas Supreme Court, arguing Republicans are racist and Democrats need to be in control of redistricting. In 2017, former Attorney General Eric Holder, with support from former president…

(The Center Square) – Texas has launched a reward program offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrests of Tren de Aragua gang members. This is after Gov. Greg Abbott declared the gang a foreign terrorist organization and after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have arrested gang members and a Democratic county attorney sued…

(The Center Square) – A Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate is under scrutiny for his claims about border security. Similar to Senate Democrats claiming to support border security, including distancing themselves from Biden-Harris administration policies, U.S. Rep. Collin Allred, D-Dallas, who’s challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he will secure the border.…

(The Center Square) – Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson has requested information from the Biden administration “to provide citizenship data to help Texas maintain secure voter rolls.” “Texas demands this information. The federal government must stop hiding the ball. We must have clean elections where only eligible voters cast votes,” Gov. Greg Abbott said…