Podcasts News Politics Texas Tribune Brief Operation Lone Star is meant to stop cartels and smugglers. Instead, it mostly arrests migrants for misdemeanor trespassing.

Operation Lone Star is meant to stop cartels and smugglers. Instead, it mostly arrests migrants for misdemeanor trespassing.

Published: April 4, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'The largest share of Operation Lone Star arrests were of people accused only of trespassing on private property. Many spend months in prison, but the strategy does not appear to have slowed immigration.'