Saw other comments where what Texas was doing not working. I still stay in touch with ranches where we worked and all of them tell me that foot traffic is down. However, there is more vehicle bailouts and chases happening on the highways. The only place foot traffic has not decreased is around interior check points
I think the way our Gov Abbott is approaching this versus previously where Gov Chearleader threw all our interior DPS officers on the border (operation Linebacker) and once the illegals got past them the only ones left to stop them was CSO. CSO was being overrun.
I am not going to go into all of what Abbott is doing but McGraw has been removed from the planning stage which is a good thing.
Originally, both plans were put in place to deal the possibility that the Cartel wars, which were raging at the time, could spill over into Texas.
Back then, Prez Bush was sending Justice Dept grants to Texas to pay for most of it.