AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A legislative committee is scrutinizing increased efforts to secure the Texas-Mexico border amid a surge of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing into the U.S.

Members of the state House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee will get an update Tuesday on Gov. Rick Perry’s ordered deployment of 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. That is costing Texas roughly $12 million per month.

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