Editorial: Can torch-bearing Texans stop Abbott's monster?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Abbott's director of budget policy, Sarah Hicks, told lawmakers the governor's office would receive $1.02 billion from the funding bill for border security grants, including $750 million reserved for constructing a physical barrier.
53% : That's in addition to a $250 million "down payment" the state made on a border wall this summer.
53% : Hicks said the Department of Public Safety has identified 733 miles where some kind of border wall may be necessary.
51% : As with such law enforcement surges in the recent past, the most tangible result seems to be swarms of state troopers throughout the border region with nothing much to do but harass law-abiding motorists.
38% : The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will get $273.7 million (of our money) to convert three state detention centers into jails for migrants caught up in Abbott's Operation Lone Star, launched earlier this year.

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