Border County Urges Abbott to Back Creation of Texas Division of Homeland Security by Darlene McCormick Sanchez – US Politics News

Officials from a Texas county bordering Mexico are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to convene a special session to reconsider a bill establishing the Texas Division of Homeland Security (DHS).
Kinney County Judge John Paul Schuster, County Attorney Brent Smith, and Sheriff Brad Coe wrote an April 16 letter to the Texas governor voicing their concerns over drugs and transnational criminals flooding into Texas under President Joe Biden’s border policies.
While praising the Republican governor’s efforts to protect the state’s citizens and sovereignty, the county officials asked him to do more by getting the legislature together to create a Texas DHS….