(The Center Square) – Law enforcement officers working through Operation Lone Star continue to interdict criminal activity at the Texas-Mexico border, including apprehending human smugglers and gang members.
Members of Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard are continuing to apprehend single young men of military age who are citizens of Mexico or countries in Central and South America who are illegally entering Texas in-between ports of entry, intentionally seeking to evade detection and capture. After committing a traffic violation, drivers of vehicles oftentimes are pursued by law enforcement, resulting in those inside bailing out into the brush to escape getting caught. Bailouts and car chases are a regular occurrence in border counties, and in counties several hundred miles north, law enforcement officers told The Center Square.
In an effort to educate the public, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department are publishing videos about the tactics being used by smugglers and those they are bringing into the country illegally.
Traffickers can earn several thousand dollars for each person they transport north, law enforcement officers told The Center Square, ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 per person.
Cartel operatives use social media apps to advertise to Americans, instructing them to drive south to the border from other states, or major cities in Texas. They provide GPS locations and other instructions for pick up and drop off points as well as information about passengers, law enforcement officials say.
In Maverick County, for example, Texas DPS officers last week initiated a traffic stop of a driver of a gravel hauler on the night of Oct. 4. Instead of pulling over, the driver increased speed and led the officers on a vehicle pursuit. When the chase ended, the driver stopped and bailed out, running towards the brush. Hiding inside the hauler were 17 mostly men, all citizens of another country who entered Texas and the U.S. illegally.
DPS Troopers attempted to stop a gravel hauler for a traffic violation and were led on a vehicle pursuit in Maverick County. The driver bailed out. A total of 17 illegal immigrants were apprehended and referred to Border Patrol.Texas Department of Public Safety
In another car chase and bailout in Uvalde County on the same night, an 18-year-old sought to evade capture. Driving a Ford F150 truck, the driver led DPS troopers on a high-speed pursuit. After disabling the vehicle, he bailed out and was apprehended.
Hidden inside of the truck were 13 mostly Mexican men.
All foreign nationals apprehended by Texas law enforcement are turned over to Border Patrol agents who process them for violating immigration law. Department of Homeland Security investigators also launch investigations into alleged violations of federal human smuggling laws. Drivers who are U.S. citizens and alleged human smugglers are apprehended by Texas law enforcement and charged with allegedly violating state human smuggling laws.
While DPS troopers are apprehending some who’ve entered the U.S. illegally without being detected on state and county roads, Texas National Guardsmen and women are positioned closer to the Rio Grande River, apprehending those who cross the river in-between ports of entry also seeking to evade capture from law enforcement.
Staff Sgt. Riener Mongerson, Echo Company, 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry platoon leader explains in a new video released by the Texas Military Department that the single men of military age are gang members and scouts. They engage in lookout missions for gangs and cartels to determine the best route to smuggle people and drugs to avoid detection.
“We know a lot of them are gang members because if they get away and get into the river, they throw gang signs and antagonize us,” he said. “We don’t get a lot of people surrendering in our area, mostly people who run.”
In this instance, guardsmen and women are setting up operations in areas where non-family units, mostly young single men, are crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas.
Since Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in March 2021, Texas law enforcement officers have apprehended over 311,000 foreign nationals, made more than 20,500 criminal arrests, including reporting more than 18,000 felony charges. Texas DPS officers have also seized more than 337 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill everyone in the United States.
Texas’ border security mission, fully funded by Texas taxpayers, “continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Biden’s open border policies.”
Looks like this will continue until some of the invaders start getting shot down first in the legs to keep them from running. If the word does not get out and stop them from this then lethal response needs to be administered without prdjudice. We are at war with a Drug Cartel who is killing our people by the hundreds of thousands in drugs or debilitations. Presidential pardons should be offered to any assigned legal officer who shoots those who also many of which come in armed. Just what do we need a federal government for if they refuse to protect and serve LEGAL American citizens. Maybe a massive coordinated organized Tax rebellion should take place outright refusing to pay any taxes until the border is secured. not to defund the police and our defenders but to defund the social expeimentors who are killing us with their warped sense of kindness.
Law enforcement officers are trained to shoot for center mass, not to wound. A wounded man can still kill you.
TILL we start dropping these crooks bodies, OVER ON THE MEXICAN Side, as a warning, this will continue.
From… THE AMERICAN THINKER
” Writing for the International Institute of Social Studies in 2007, social scientist Hein de Haas concluded that, “Besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people’s capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration.”
Its Free! Come through America’s open borders and Welfare Awaits you, ITS FREE!
“Texas DPS officers have also seized more than 337 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill everyone in the United States.
Texas’ border security mission, fully funded by Texas taxpayers, “continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said. “Every individual who is apprehended or arrested and every ounce of drugs seized would have otherwise made their way into communities across Texas and the nation due to President Biden’s open border policies.””
This alone should be enough to arrest, convict and imprison this treasonous, corrupt, puppet president Joe Biden.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who leads border security policy in the Biden administration, should also be in prison.
“Texas DPS officers have also seized more than 337 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill everyone in the United States.
That’s why i keep saying, what we need to do, is place massive fans along the border, OPEN UP EVERY DAMN ONE OF THE BAGS of fentanyl we have seized, And LET THE FANS BLOW THE drugs back across the border..
I believe that we are all saying that we as a nation must strictly enforce our immigration laws without leniency or any form of failure. Every other nation does that and nobody enters their countries without proper documents and authority. We hear about deportees boomeranging multiple times in and out of the country and that is our fault and nobody else’s. If theses illegals knew that there were real consequences for their actions we will effectively eliminate this problem. Forget wounding; just shoot to kill no differently if any person attempted to break into my home. Expand our Border Patrol and turn back these invaders before they enter into our country or shoot them if they actually cross over into the United States. Our justice system is way too soft on crime so these offenders, illegal or not see no true consequences to their actions. Forget about deportation since we know that it doesn’t work; throw the perpetrators into prison where they belong. Do not give them incentive to come here; no free housing, food, healthcare, cell phones, etc. Of course knowing that the grass actually is greener on the other side they will continue to come. No more freebies for non-citizens here or abroad; support American citizens and America first and last.
TILL we get rid of all those damn freebies, they will keep coming, no matter how dangerous.
Post the signs on the border “Due to the tremendous amount of illegal drugs coming across this border, illegal entry violators will be shot”. Then carry that out. This illegal invasion will end. These unknown INVADERS need to be stopped.