House Bill 3782 (2023)* proposes to establish a Border Security Advisory Council to advise the Legislature and the governor, or the governor’s designee, on homeland security issues impacting the security of the Texas–Mexico border and on streamlining statewide border security activities and initiatives. The bill would also create the Border Protection Task Force to provide expertise and increase efficiency across agencies participating in border safety operations.
Border Security
America Gets Serious About Cartels. Will Mexico?
President Claudia Sheinbaum shrugs as two CIA officers are killed in Chihuahua. Deaths in Mexico’s modern cartel wars are nothing unusual: The sanguinary toll of nearly 20 years of bloodshed, of state vs. criminals vs. citizenry, exceeds that of most major wars. But American deaths in Mexico are unusual—especially deaths of Americans present in an...
April 27, 2026