"Operation Stonegarden provides funding to local & state law enforcement agencies to partner with Border Patrol to combat human & drug smuggling."
Texas Insider Report WASHINGTON, D.C. – Texas Congressman Gonzales joined Terrell County Sheriff Thad Cleveland, and Texas DPS Helicopter pilots Morris & Chavez, to see President Trump’s border security policies in action. Congressman Gonzales represents Texas Congressional District 23 – the largest border district in the U.S. House of Representatives (below) – and sits on both committees in Congress with jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS,) the House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Through his seat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, Gonzaales advanced President Trump’s border provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed into law in July.
"Under President Biden, this part of the U.S.-Mexico border would at any given time have 100s of Illegal Aliens crossing. Today our border is competely secure due to President Trump's policies," said Gonzales on X/Twitter.- Click here to view the video on X/Twitter
"Operation Stonegarden provides funding to local & state law enforcement agencies to partner with Border Patrol to combat human & drug smuggling. The #OBBB delivers $450 million for this critical program. P.S. No illegal crossings detected today. Promises made, promises kept."
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers:
- $46.5 billion to build the Border Wall (including access roads, cameras, lights, sensors)
- $4.1 billion to hire and train Border Patrol Agents, AMO agents, and field support personnel
- $2 billion for retention and signing bonuses for CBP personnel
- $855 million for CBP fleet upgrades
- $5 billion for CBP facility and checkpoint upgrades
- $45 billion for the detention of illegal aliens under ICE jurisdiction
- $6 billion for border surveillance improvements, counter drug trafficking efforts, and screening persons entering or exiting the country
- $10 billion for state reimbursements for border security
- $500 million for state and local capabilities to detect UAS threats
- $450 million for Operation Stonegarden
- $10 billion to reimburse Texas and other states for costs associated with the Biden Border Crisis
