WESLACO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday is set to update the Operation Lone Star surge operation.

He’ll be providing updates at a news conference scheduled for 11:30 a.m. in Weslaco, Texas, which is located near the Texas-Mexico border and close to the southern tip of the state.

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Joining Abbott will be Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steve McCraw, Adjutant Gen. of Texas Tracy Norris, members of the National Border Patrol Council and local law enforcement.

When it launched early in March, Abbott’s office described Operation Lone Star as an operation aimed at combating “the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.”

Abbott has maintained that Biden administration policies encouraging more migrant border crossings have also led to an uptick in human trafficking and other crimes.

“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” Abbott wrote in a news release. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”

The target, the governor’s office says, is Mexican drug cartels and other smugglers.