In the wake of a New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans committed by a Houston resident, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to surge Texas Anti-Terrorism Task Force resources “to aggressively combat radical jihadist terrorism.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)(Eric Gay / AP) AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott’s political committee, Texans for Greg Abbott ...

Since Gov. Greg Abbott launched his border security mission, Operation Lone Star, in 2021, OLS officers have apprehended more than 530,600 illegal border crossers. They’ve also made more than 50,000 criminal arrests,