COVID outbreak. Suicides. Shoddy living conditions. Texas National Guard troops voice border mission mistreatment. – USA TODAY
AUSTIN, Texas — Soldiers sleeping in tractor-trailers. Erratic pay. Rampant COVID-19 spread. Suicides.
Members of the Texas National Guard patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border under Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to stem the flow of undocumented migrants, have voiced a flurry of complaints about their ongoing mission there.
