By Holly Gilbert Stowell
The Texas Department of Public Safety will increase its spending on border security by an additional $1.3 million per week, according to the L.A. Times. The budget increase was authorized by Texas Governor Rick Perry and other state officials, who announced that they will begin “emergency surge” operations along the border with Mexico. The increased border security is an attempt to curb “an influx of immigrants making the illegal crossing, mostly women and children from Central America.” Upon announcing the increase, state officials noted in the statement that “the border patrol caught 160,000 individuals illegally crossing the Rio Grande Valley in the first eight months of this fiscal year, and that they had “caught more than 1,100 immigrants per day in the valley.” The surge, expected to continue through the end of the year, was applauded by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who contacted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson for an additional $30 million in federal funding.
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