Texas National Guard troops were ordered as private security for wealthy ranches, service members sa

[Ohio Joe]

Texas National Guard troops were ordered as private security for wealthy ranches, service members say

Roughly 30 Texas National Guard members stood watch outside the properties of wealthy private ranch owners in South Texas earlier this year in an effort to crack down on illegal immigration.

The ranches were over an hour drive away from the U.S.-Mexico border, but troops were present to try to deter migrants who might have looked to cross the border via private properties to avoid Border Patrol checkpoints, according to The Texas Tribune.

Service members familiar with the mission told the Tribune that those stationed at the ranches, almost 80 miles from the border, rarely saw migrants from their positions and that even if they did, they were not authorized to enter the private properties.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-national-guard-troops-were-ordered-as-private-security-for-wealthy-ranches-service-members-say/ar-AAV8xj7?ocid=msedgntp

So... Abbott had the National Guard protecting ranches that were 90 miles from the border? From migrants? Uh huh

[SWBTATTReg]

1. So send these ranches a bill for these services and then ask Abbott to explain why hasn't he

billed these entities for these services rendered by his Natl Guard?

[babylonsister]

2. This has got to be illegal,

not to mention expensive.

The dispatching of troops to wealthy private ranches raises more questions about the use of National Guard troops, who have widely decried the mission as aimless, political and oversized, as the cost of the effort has already ballooned to $2 billion a year. State leaders transferred nearly half a billion dollars to the Texas Military Department last month from three other state agencies to cover the mounting costs of keeping thousands of Texas National Guard troops on the southern border.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/16/texas-national-guard-king-ranch/