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-Land of the Free
Texas Governor Sends Highway Patrol, National Guard to Block Migrants at Border
2021-09-20
[BREITBART] Texas Governor Greg Abbott
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
 deployed a contingent of Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Highway Patrol troopers
“One traffic jam, one trooper.”
to stop the free flow of mostly Haitian migrants colonists from crossing the Rio Grande. The force of nearly 1,000 troopers and National Guard soldiers entered the makeshift migrant camp housing nearly 15,000
...a number that keeps rising as the days pass, oddly enough...
migrants colonists under the Del Rio International Bridge.

On Saturday afternoon, the troopers used vehicles and barbed wire to block access to a weir dam stretching the Rio Grande. The migrants colonists utilized the dam as the primary crossing point from Mexico into the makeshift camp.

As of late Saturday, the crossings had completely stopped after the DPS blocked access using vehicles and a rudimentary barbed-wire barrier. Just hours before, Breitbart Texas visited the camp by boat and witnessed the non-stop crossings of newly arriving migrants colonists and those using the dam to bring in food and other supplies from Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila.

Although the migrants colonists are being provided food and water by the Border Patrol and local authorities on scene, many chose to seek their own provisions from Acuna.
They don’t do Mexican food right in Texas, donchaknow.
Moslem colonists Migrants also brought cardboard and other materials used to construct primitive shelters alongside the international bridge. Many have spent more than a week in the shelter. As Breitbart Texas first reported, the migrants colonists began arriving in significant numbers earlier this month.

There are other areas that are being used by the migrants colonists to ford the river, but none provide the shallow, easy access that the dam afforded. Bringing goods and supplies into the camp from Mexico will be near impossible without access to the dam. Authorities have been worried about tension building up in the camp as the population continues to swell.

The troopers and Guardsmen, deployed as part of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star have been dispatched to border communities since March. The contingent of more than 1,000 Highway Patrol troopers and Texas Army National Guard soldiers have focused primarily on blocking major migrant crossing points and increasing patrols along state highways leading away from the border.

Related:
Del Rio: 2021-09-19 Cartel Violence, Cheaper Smuggling Rates Drive Caribbean Migrants to West Texas Border
Del Rio: 2021-09-19 Border Patrol given police escort as they begin removing 14,800 migrants from underneath Texas bridge after Biden vowed to deport thousands back to Haiti; Laredo checkpoints stripped to support Del Rio op.
Del Rio: 2021-09-19 Scrappy Fox News teaches Biden administration's censors a lesson
Posted by:Fred

#5  I'm still amazed nobody built a wall long, long ago. It is an international border after all.
Posted by: ruprecht   2021-09-20 17:14  

#4  Don't worry - Beano will fix everything after he's elected Governor....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-09-20 16:45  

#3  It should be declared as a foreign invasion by the state and the admission that it is an act of war. Texas should close it's entire southern border and fortify it until such time as the invaders are repelled.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2021-09-20 11:01  

#2  These days, I like to see it like a book of matches. The federal gov is the striker strip and the states are the matches. Yes, the striker is still there if all the matches are burned, but then it's useless.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-20 04:40  

#1  At some point the Feds are likely to come out in opposition to Operation Lone Star. From a State's rights aspect, this could get very interesting.


Posted by: Besoeker   2021-09-20 02:59  

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