(The Center Square) – At a recent Texas Senate Committee hearing on border security and the progress of Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star, officials discussed how state efforts have moved illegal entry west to New Mexico, Arizona and California. When the border crisis first erupted in early 2021 after the Biden administration began implementing a range of policies, Texas border towns were overrun with crime and a volume of people taxing local resources. In March 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott created OLS, which has since expanded operations. In January 2023, he brought on a new “Bord…