Yet, they are having troubles paying the National Guardsmen for their services.
"Many Texas National Guard service members assigned to the operation came to recognize it as a disaster plagued by a spate of troop suicides, failure to pay troops, equipment shortages and a belief among some troops that they were hastily assigned to an involuntary mission that left them with little to do."
"In
a Texas Tribune article in January, several troops detailed their pay issues, their anger over poor living conditions, their irritation over the operation’s haphazard planning, and their frustration over the little time they were given to prepare before being sent to the U.S.-Mexico border."
Operation Lone Star, Abbott's botched immigration crackdown, is the subject of criticism by both Democrats and Republicans.