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Author: Martin, Laura

Title: Operation Border Star: Wasted Millions and Missed Opportunities

Summary: Operation Border Star is the latest in a succession of homeland security efforts implemented in Texas. In the 80th Regular Session, the Texas Legislature appropriated $110 million for border security efforts, calling for multi-agency collaboration to respond to violent crime, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism. This report examines the data reported by eleven of the almost 40 participating local law enforcement entities who were awarded $5 million through Operation Border Star during the latter half of 2007 and into 2008, and suggests more effective strategies to make Texas safer.

Details: Austin, TX: American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, 2009. 33p.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2009

Country: United States

URL:

Shelf Number: 117755

Keywords:
Border Security (Texas)
Drug Control (Texas)
Drug Smuggling (Texas)
Violence

Author: McCaffrey, Barry R.

Title: Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment

Summary: During the past two years the state of Texas has become increasingly threatened by the spread of Mexican cartel organized crime. The threat reflects a change in the strategic intent of the cartels to move their operations into the United States. In effect, the cartels seek to create a “sanitary zone” inside the Texas border -- one county deep -- that will provide sanctuary from Mexican law enforcement and, at the same time, enable the cartels to transform Texas’ border counties into narcotics transshipment points for continued transport and distribution into the continental United States. To achieve their objectives the cartels are relying increasingly on organized gangs to provide expendable and unaccountable manpower to do their dirty work. These gangs are recruited on the streets of Texas cities and inside Texas prisons by top-tier gangs who work in conjunction with the cartels.

Details: Mico, TX: Colgen, 2011. 30p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 2, 2012 at: http://mccaul.house.gov/uploads/Final%20Report-Texas%20Border%20Security.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: United States

URL: http://mccaul.house.gov/uploads/Final%20Report-Texas%20Border%20Security.pdf

Shelf Number: 125122

Keywords:
Border Security (Texas)
Drug Cartels
Drug Trafficking
Organized Crime