Published by the New Yorker on April 26, 2022.
National Guardsmen assigned to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) “Operation Lone Star” are seeking to exercise a new federal right to form a union.
The National Guard Soldiers Trying to Unionize
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National Guard troops were dispatched to famous Texas ranches with private security as part of border mission
Published by the Texas Tribune on March 16, 2022.
A new investigation of Texas’s troubled National Guard border deployment finds that some Guardsmen have been ordered to station themselves outside some of the wealthiest private ranches in south Texas, where they have little to do.
Greg Abbott’s Border Theater Is Having Disastrous Consequences for Everyone Involved
Published by The Intercept on February 2, 2022.
An overview of human rights issues, morale problems, and mission questions surrounding the Texas state government’s large National Guard deployment.
Deplorable conditions, unclear mission: Texas National Guard troops call Abbott’s rushed border operation a disaster
Published by Military Times and the Texas Tribune on February 1, 2022.
A thorough look at problems with Texas’s state National Guard deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border under what Gov. Greg Abbott (R) calls “Operation Lone Star.”
Death, drugs and a disbanded unit: How the Guard’s Mexico border mission fell apart
Published by Army Times on December 8, 2021.
An investigation exposes serious mission, morale, discipline, and equipment problems in the federal government’s National Guard mission at the border.