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Bill To Support Operation Lone Star Passes Missouri Legislature

Bonisiwe Shabane
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bill to support operation lone star passes missouri legislature

The first bill to pass both chambers in this year’s Missouri Legislative Session is a bill that would fund over $2.2 million this budget year to help with illegal crossings at the southern border. Gov. Mike Parson has ordered about 200 National Guard members and up to 22 Highway Patrol troopers to the U.S.-Mexico border. The extra spending bill is designed to support Operation Lone Star, to curb illegal border crossings and smuggling. “This is paying for our law enforcement officers that, since the first day of March, have been down on the Texas southern border with the Operation Lone Star,” said Senate Appropriations Chair Lincoln Hough,... This follows Parson’s mission trip in February to visit Texas on the actions being taken to protect the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The governor, with Executive Order 24-03, initiated 250 National Guardsmen and women and a total of 22 voluntary highway patrol men and women that are working in 11 member shifts for 32 days at... An incoming Missouri Republican lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would offer $1,000 bounties to residents who turn in undocumented immigrants to the state highway patrol. The bill, filed by Sen.-elect David Gregory, a St. Louis-area Republican, would require the Missouri Department of Public Safety to create phone and email hotlines as well as an online portal where Missourians would be able to report alleged undocumented immigrants. The bill is among several pieces of legislation that deal with illegal immigration ahead of next month’s legislative session. They come as President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans across the country have made frustrations with immigration, and the U.S.-Mexico border, a hot-button issue.

In addition to the payouts, Gregory’s bill would require the Department of Public Safety to create a “Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program.” The program would certify people to become bounty hunters to... Individuals who are licensed as bail bond agents or surety recovery agents would be able to apply to become bounty hunters under Gregory’s bill. Gov. Mike Parson signed a supplemental appropriations bill that funds the deployment of Missouri soldiers and troopers into law on Wednesday after visiting the southern border of Texas. The bill includes $2 million in funding for Missouri's southern border deployment, aiding Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star.

"President Biden and the federal government have failed. They're allowing fentanyl and other drugs, criminals, and even suspected terrorists to flood across the border into our country. States must take a stand, and that's exactly what Missouri is doing," Parson said. "The more crime we can stop at the Southern Border, the less we have to deal with in Missouri. We appreciate the strong group of bipartisan lawmakers for approving this funding and understanding the need for Missouri to step in when the federal government has failed our citizens." Gov.

Mike Parson was joined Wednesday by Missouri National Guard Adjutant General Levon Cumpton and Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Victor Escalon. Parson issued an executive order on Feb. 20 that activated 200 Missouri National Guard (MONG) members and 22 Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers to the southern border, according to past KOMU 8 reporting. Hundreds of National Guardsmen have spent the past three years rotating through a deployment in Texas. They’ve traded Midwestern green grass, highways and sprawling crop fields for dusty roads, a dry riverbed and close-ups of concertina wire thousands of miles away from their families. Baking for hours in the withering heat, the troops from Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska share a mission under the banner of Operation Lone Star: Intercept immigrants arriving illegally and drugs crossing the U.S.

border from Mexico. “Political theater” is how immigration and border relations researcher Tony Payan describes the operation. He regularly travels both sides of the border interviewing activists, migrants and experts about immigration. Unlawful migration has become a political flashpoint since Donald Trump began campaigning on the issue and arguing for a border wall in 2015. It continues to be a key element of GOP campaigns. According to a July poll from Gallup, about 55% of Americans support a decrease in immigration to the U.S.

Payan, director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, said the troops tasked with maintaining these border patrols have become increasingly stressed as long stretches of inactivity and heat take their toll. (The Center Square) – Republican Gov. Mike Parson issued an executive order Tuesday declaring a state of emergency in Missouri to send members of the Missouri National Guard and Highway Patrol troopers to Texas. Parson ordered 200 soldiers and 22 troopers and is requesting $2.3 million in a supplemental appropriation from the state legislature to fund the action. They will support Operation Lone Star, a mission executed by Texas Republican Gov.

Greg Abbott. Parson’s office stated approximately 10 million individuals have entered the U.S. illegally via the Texas-Mexico border. He repeatedly emphasized the immigrants are transporting fentanyl across the border with more than 460 million lethal doses of the drug. He criticized the White House and the media for attempting to mischaracterize the situation. “I'm telling you they're trying to put a spin that these are American people producing fentanyl and all of a sudden we're starting to sell fentanyl and it's not the illegals crossing the borders...

“That's the spin they're trying to put on and I think that's about as false as false can be.” Parson said his recent trip to Texas to observe the situation and speak with Gov. Abbott was alarming. Parson is one of 25 Republican governors pledging support to Gov. Abbott. Gov.

Mike Parson flanked by Major General Levon E. Cumpton announced plans on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, to deploy the Missouri National Guard and Missouri Highway Patrol troopers to assist Texas address illegal immigration. Screengrab Gov. Mike Parson meets with Texas law enforcement officers on Sunday, Feb.

4, 2024, during a fact-finding visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Major General Levon E. Cumpton discuss the plan to send roughly 200 Missouri National Guard troops to support Texas’ Operation Lone Star at the southern border. Video courtesy of the Governor's office, edited by Jenna Jones. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.

The Trump campaign released a list of six top state officials and 56 members of the Legislature who are endorsing the former president’s bid f… Update: Missouri’s executive order sending Missouri National Guard troops to Texas expired on Thursday, June 13. Gov. Mike Parson did not extend the order. His office touted it as a “success” on June 13. Missouri Gov.

Mike Parson’s executive order to send Missouri National Guard members to the Texas border with Mexico expires Thursday, raising questions about whether the Republican governor will extend the deployment. Parson signed the order in February, sending up to 200 National Guard members and 22 State Highway Patrol troopers to aid Texas, which has promoted a plan dubbed “Operation Lone Star” that uses Texas... With the June 13 expiration date looming, Sen. Lincoln Hough, a Springfield Republican who chairs the Senate’s powerful budget-writing committee, sent a letter to Parson on Wednesday supporting an extension of the executive order. “If you decide to continue Missouri’s involvement, you have my full support in securing the border through Operation Lone Star,” Hough, who is running for lieutenant governor, wrote in the letter. “Funding this order is crucial for safeguarding our border and protecting Missouri and its communities.”

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