At Tuesday’s Amarillo City Council meeting, the council unanimously agreed to pass a resolution that will support the Texas Governor’s work at the border with Operation Lone Star.
With little discussion from the council meeting about the measure, Amarillo Mayor Cole Stanley said that he wanted to express the city’s support for Gov. Greg Abbott and his efforts to curb illegal immigration. This resolution stems from discussions on the council’s message board that councilmember Tom Scherlen started. Stanley supported this idea due to what he felt was a breach of the Constitution from the current administration.
During the meeting, Stanley addressed the message board discussion.
“Councilmember Scherlen, watching what is going on at the state border, watching the intentional invasion of our entire country, but a large majority of that coming through the state of Texas and then looking at Operation Lone Star, which unfortunately is a measure that you have seen our governor take as a last-ditch effort to say we need your help down here. … We are all sitting here conscientious of the reality that we see hundreds of thousands of people who come across our borders and are identified on our terror watch list or identified as a threat. … This is a show of support, and we as Texas need to back our fellow Texans down south in Austin,” Stanley said.