Texas Governor Greg Abbott has recently announced that Operation Lone Star will now also work on solving human trafficking related to illegal border crossings.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers and agents, in partnership with the Texas Rangers, will be conducting interviews with unaccompanied minors who crossed the border in an effort to find the victims of human trafficking.

The interviews will hopefully lead to the arrest of the traffickers.

Abbott also requested from the Biden administration access unaccompanied minor holding facility in Dallas, and other federally-run facilities in Texas, for DPS to execute its mission.

"President Biden’s reckless open border policies have created a humanitarian crisis that is enriching the cartels, smugglers, and human traffickers who often prey on and abuse unaccompanied minors,” Gov. Abbott stated in his press release.

Expanding Operation Lone Star from its initial mission of helping secure the border and combat the smuggling of people and drugs in Texas to also including anti-human trafficking efforts aims to prevent more children from being trafficked and abused.