Abbott faces backlash on Operation Lone Star with border protests this weekend

Published August 6, 2022 11:00am ET



AUSTIN, Texas — Activists from progressive immigrant rights groups will descend on four cities across Texas this weekend to protest how Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has spent billions of dollars mobilizing thousands of state troopers and military to the Mexican border in the past year.

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