Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the Operation Lone Star jail booking facility in Jim Hogg County to draw down and be ready to close next month. Abbott points to not enough business.

Jim Hogg County is in the far southern corner of Texas close to Mexico, about 250 miles southwest of Houston.

Abbott’s press release said the facility will close “thanks to President Donald Trump’s decisive and swift leadership on the border crisis that has led to historically low illegal immigration.”

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