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Talarico's Tech-Driven Border Plan | Texas News

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is rolling out a tech-driven, personnel-focused border security plan that ditched the wall-building hype—instead, he’s hiring more agents and judges to speed up asylum claims, while supporting physical barriers only where they make sense, like in populated zones, not rugged areas like Big Bend. Backed by three rural sheriffs—including a GOP sheriff who’s also a former Border Patrol agent—Talarico argues border security should be nonpartisan and practical, contrasting sharply with GOP rival Ken Paxton’s wall-and-deportation platform. Talarico’s strategy…

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