The chart is from US Custom and Border Protection (click here).
The chart clearly shows the majority of illegal border crossings are single adults; not families or minors, but, single adults.
President Biden has already addressed the issue.
February 21, 2023By Nick Miroff
...Biden’s asylum rule, (click here) according to the proposal, will “encourage migrants to avail themselves of lawful, safe, and orderly pathways into the United States, or otherwise to seek asylum or other protection in countries through which they travel, thereby reducing reliance on human smuggling networks that exploit migrants for financial gain.”...
...will likely take effect before the May 11 expiration of the pandemic-era public health restrictions known as Title 42....
Texas does not have to and should not create state laws that over reach into federal jurisdiction or create human rights violations. It is pure vigilantism that includes a court outside the jurisdiction of federal law.
The Governor's Operation Lone Star was a complete failure (click here) attracting more and more border crossings during it's 18 months existence. Operation Lone Star can account for the border crossing increases attributed to President Biden.
April 12, 2023
...Today, Human Rights Watch (click here) respectfully asks this Committee to oppose HB 20 (click here) and HB 7 (click here). Together, the bills amount to a dangerous and extreme effort to expand Texas’ border policing program including the creation of a state-sponsored vigilante border protection unit and the codification and expansion of a border policing, court, and jailing system that has to date resulted in injuries, deaths, racial discrimination, abusive detention conditions, and a chilling effect on freedoms of association and expression....
...Today, Human Rights Watch (click here) respectfully asks this Committee to oppose HB 20 (click here) and HB 7 (click here). Together, the bills amount to a dangerous and extreme effort to expand Texas’ border policing program including the creation of a state-sponsored vigilante border protection unit and the codification and expansion of a border policing, court, and jailing system that has to date resulted in injuries, deaths, racial discrimination, abusive detention conditions, and a chilling effect on freedoms of association and expression....
