Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, photographed in June, announces an additional effort to arrest migrants under his already established Operation Lone Star, promising a surge of personnel and resources to combat what he called a crisis of human smuggling and drug smuggling at the border.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's anti-migrant plan: Many arrested, many detained, few prosecuted
The 27-year-old man tried to hold it together as he walked to his cell. It was weeks since he had been arrested. Weeks with no charges and no access to an attorney, he told CNN. Worst of all, two weeks without being able to talk to anyone on the outside, especially his wife and 7-year-old son.
