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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Karen Brooks Harper

Texas House passes sweeping border funding bill, guts proposed policing unit

Department of Public Safety agents arrest an undocumented migrant for trespassing private property as part of Operation Lone Star in Kinney County near Brackettville, Texas on Nov. 9, 2021. 
Verónica G. Cárdenas for ProPublica/The Texas Tribune
Texas Department of Public Safety agents arrest an undocumented migrant for trespassing private property as part of Operation Lone Star in Kinney County near Brackettville, Texas on Nov. 9, 2021. Verónica G. Cárdenas for ProPublica/The Texas Tribune (Credit: Verónica G. Cárdenas for The Texas Tribune/ProPublica)

The Texas House on Wednesday gave final approval to a sweeping border protection and funding measure that would create a new state border policing unit and send nearly $100 million to border communities for new detention centers, courts, border security, higher education and economic development projects.

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