This may be Abbott finally deciding to confront the cartelistas in the Neches Strip, There is a persistent narrative that the underlying reason for the recent school masacre fiasco was that the head of school security eas deliberately ‘off line’ as he was desperately tying to find one of the cartel cut outs in town to tell him whether the shooter was a ‘muchacho’, a made man, and therefore untouchable, or just a nut who could be killed. the Neches Strip, according to this narrative, is effectively cartel controlled country. Abbott of course knows this as does every person of any stature in Texas government. He has continued to look away knowing the cartels are not only willing to straight up kill law enforcement agents and politicians, but that they have very good lawyers on their payroll who will use the personal liberty parts of the Texas constitution and code of criminl justice to the maximum advantage. If Abbott actually has the guts to go to war with these people he is a much greater man than I ever imagined him to be.
Interesting, thanks!