U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watchlist along the U.S.-Mexico border in September.
This brought the total number of FBI terror watchlist suspects arrested along the southwest border in federal fiscal year 2023 to 169—more than the previous six years combined.
Conservative fiscal policy advocates are pushing for legislation to protect tax dollars.
The agreement will lease approximately 270,000 acres of offshore land in the Gulf of Mexico.
Other Texas school districts are also using the disaster exception to raise their property tax rates.