Texas spent billions on border security. What happens to Greg Abbott's mission when Dems take over?

Texas has spent billions over nearly 12 years under Gov. Greg Abbott to expand state-led immigration enforcement, including deploying National Guard forces, making arrests, and building border barriers. On Election Day, voters replaced Abbott with Democrats Gina Hinojosa, the first Mexican American elected governor of Texas, and Nathan Johnson, the first Democratic attorney general since 1994. Johnson will succeed Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office defended Abbott’s policies in federal court. The change follows Democratic gains nationwide that critics say rebuked the Trump administration’s economic agenda and immigration crackdown. The article cites the July killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE agent in Houston and notes how border-county support also shifted. Hinojosa and Johnson inherit a framework shaped by spending, state laws, federal partnerships, and court rulings that could constrain rapid change.