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2024-09-01 Home Front: WoT
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At least 17 Texas National Guard have died securing the border -- with one drowning trying to save migrants
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[NYPOST] At least 17 Texas National Guard members have died securing the US southern border — with one drowning in the Rio Grande while trying to save migrants colonists.
The corpse count was revealed during an Aug. 20 meeting of Texas' state House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs.
Shelia Bailey Taylor, the Texas Military Department director of state administration, was discussing a new state law that provides $500,000 to families of fallen service members deployed under Gov. Greg Abbott
 ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
's Operation Lone Star border mission.
The legislation was inspired by the death of Guardsman Bishop Evans, who drowned in April 2022 after jumping into the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass and saving a pair of migrants colonists who were trying to enter the country illegally.
Many of the deaths of other Guard members' assigned to the border were not directly related to the migrant mission. 
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