DALLAS — The ACLU of Texas and the national ACLU filed a formal complaint on Monday asking for a federal investigation into Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star by the Department of Homeland Security civil rights compliance unit.
The controversial anti-immigration initiative has expanded multiple times since March of 2021 and GOP leaders say a spike in border migration justifies pumping at least $4 billion into Operation Lone Star.
The ACLU alleges that DPS agents are overstepping their legal authority by detaining and transferring migrants to DHS custody and its Customs and Border Protection agency. The letter asks that DHS take “swift action” to reject migrant transfers by Texas DPS or by any other state or local agency, and to end “any detention of migrants on federal property by Texas DPS.”
