House Bill 4081 (2023) proposes that the commissioners court of a county may submit a request to the Texas Judicial Council for reimbursement of all or part of the salary paid to an associate judge. This would apply to visiting judges who have been appointed for cases constituting the offense of criminal trespass by an illegal alien. The reimbursement would be from money appropriated to the council for the purposes of border security.
Border Security
America’s Counterterrorism Strategy Needs Texas
President Donald Trump’s new 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy makes one thing unmistakably clear: The threats facing the United States are no longer confined to distant battlefields overseas. They are here—at our border, inside our institutions, and increasingly imbedded within transnational networks operating across the homeland. The strategy identifies three principal threats: “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy...
June 4, 2026