At least 17 Texas National Guard men have died protecting the state’s southern border since Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Lone Star Border Operation, it was revealed at a meeting of the Texas House Committee on Defense and Veterans Affairs.
The families of the slain service soldiers who took part in Operation Lone Star will get payments totaling $500,000 each, according local legislation. Following the death of National Guardsman Bishop Evans (pictured) in 2022 while diving into the Rio Grande River to save two undocumented migrants, the law was passed. The immigrants made it through. “My son would still be here if Harris and Biden had passed laws to secure the border,” stated Jessica Lever, whose 19-year-old son was killed in the Fort Clark Springs shooting in February 2022. She went on to say that she genuinely feels her son was let down by the nation.
Recall that in order to counteract the surge in illegal immigration and drug smuggling in the US, Operation Lone Star was initiated in March 2021.
