Gov. Greg Abbott has signed an agreement with the Trump administration to give immigration power to the Texas National Guard, allowing soldiers to arrest and help deport undocumented migrants. The agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency in charge of patrolling international borders, authorizes National Guard soldiers to exercise “the duties and functions of an immigration officer.” In other news, former Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic was in the process of buying a new home in the Dallas area before the blockbuster trade that sent him to the Los Angeles Lakers; Globe Life announced plans Monday to acquire a Class AA, six-story, 200,000-square-foot office building on Henneman Way and two adjacent tracts of land. The move allows Globe Life to retain more than 2,000 jobs in McKinney, and the firm plans to expand its workforce. Globe Life representatives did not provide further details about the transaction; And for over a decade, folks in southern Dallas have been working to get a supermarket to open there. When Tom Thumb got $5.8 million in incentives from the city to come to the Shops at RedBird in 2023, they thought it would happen. The store, originally planned to open early this year, was expected to be a step toward addressing residents’ push for quality food options in an area with limited access to groceries. Then, they learned that it wouldn’t be coming.

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