Texas DPS marks over 900 smuggled children rescued from southern border | Texas | kdhnews.com
By: Bethany Blankley (The Killeen Daily Herald)
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Through Texas' border security mission Operation Lone Star, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have rescued more than 900 children being smuggled into and through Texas from Mexico by human traffickers, DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez announced.
Among them was a recent rescue in Maverick County in Eagle Pass, Texas, where troopers found a five-year-old Honduran girl who'd been smuggled into Texas by three adult women who weren't related to her. The women found the girl in Piedras Negras, Mexico, and then brought her with them as they crossed illegally into Texas between ports of entry.
Authorities said she was being brought to reunite with her mother; however, her mother had died three days prior. The girl told troopers her father was still in Honduras. She was turned over to Border Patrol.
In a recent traffic stop in neighboring Kinney County on a major local smuggling route, troopers pulled over a driver of a black GMC Sierra. The driver, a Mexican national who was illegally in the U.S., said he was coming from Houston to pick up friends. The trooper observed six passengers in the rear area of the truck and later learned they were all in the U.S. illegally, including two children.
When asked how the driver was related to another passenger in the car, he said they were "just friends." When asked what his friend's name was, the driver said he only knew his "nickname."
"What about the people in the back seat?" the officer asked. They were his friends too, the driver said, but he also admitted he didn't know their names or where they live. When the trooper asked another passenger if he knew who the driver was and what his name was, he said the same thing, a friend.
Later on, through the conversation, the driver admitted that someone from Mexico texted him an address to pick up a group of people who'd illegally entered Texas.
"They're not in the country legally, then," the officer asked. "Are you being paid to take them somewhere?"
The driver said he wasn't being paid. But all smugglers are paid several thousand dollars per person depending on where they are taking them, law enforcement officers have explained to The Center Square, and Houston is the primary human trafficking hub in Texas.
The driver was charged with smuggling of persons and everyone inside was turned over to Border Patrol.
DPS troopers are also arresting criminals, including sex offenders and those in possession of child pornography. A DPS brush team recently helped arrest a Mexican national and coyote who was illegally in the U.S. after he guided four people across the Rio Grande River into Texas. On the coyote's phone were pictures and video of child pornography. The Texas Rangers took over the case, and the Mexican national was charged with possession or promotion of child pornography.
DPS troopers are also identifying MS-13 gang members who are hiding in family units as they illegally cross into Texas. In a recent case, DPS Criminal Investigations Division troopers assisted Border Patrol agents with a large family group after they illegally crossed the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass. They noticed an adult male from El Salvador trying to conceal himself in the group and apprehended him.
Using facial recognition, they identified him as a possible national security threat with ties to transnational organized crime as well as confirmed he was an MS-13 gang member with eight prior apprehensions and a street-level drug dealer. He was turned over to Border Patrol.
Since Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star over two years ago, they've apprehended over 401,900 illegal foreign nationals and made more than 32,400 criminal arrests, with more than 29,600 felony charges reported, according to data from the governor's office.
These numbers are in addition to record arrests of noncitizens at ports of entry by CBP agents. Fiscal year to date, OFO agents encountered over 15,000 people with criminal convictions, up from roughly 6,500 in fiscal 2021.
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If we only had a secure border things like this could be virtually stopped. Thanks Biden.
I wonder if the Biden admin will follow in the footsteps of the Obama administration and just turn these children over to Child trafficking rings to be abused?
So far, the Biden Administration has turned over tens of thousands of illegal alien children to unvetted people, just because they verbally claimed to be a relative or friend of the child. No one knows where those children were taken or where they might be now.
When was the last time we had a "secure border"?
When was the last time that we had these high of migrant numbers?
When was the last time that sanctuary cities were declaring a migrant crisis?
When was that last time some people lived on or visited our Southern border and actually talked to the people that live there? If they did, they might get their eyes opened, but it is much easier to be spoonfed the lies of the MSM and the Biden administration.
Oh, that's easy:
And these sanctuary shitholes are only seeing a very small fraction of what border states deal with on a daily basis.
Fox News and Newsmax report on the border every day. They not only interview Border Patrol but also sheriffs, ranchers, and regular residents in AZ and TX.
Correction, I meant to state leftist liberal MSM. My thanks for catching that.
Please believe me when I say that I wasn't criticizing your comment. I apologize if you took it that way, because it wasn't my intent.
I watch network and MSM, too, and those channels almost never report on the outrageous conditions at the border. To me, that indicates that they're hiding the truth from their viewers.
"....they're hiding the truth from their viewers."
You can bet that is more than likely at the express direction of the current administration.
It happened just this week when Gold Star families gave gut-wrenching testimony. Only Fox News aired the hearing. Why are the other stations afraid of their viewers learning about Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal and his frigid indifference to their pain after losing a child in a combat zone?
Amen to that.
When was the last time you tried to actually answer a question.
My question wasn't directed to you so your attempted deflection is noted and discounted.
Deflection? No, The issue is how many and who crosses our border. There are various way to reach that goal, the goal is a secure border for its own sake.
Your question was designed to try to minimize the problem.
It has been decades since we had a secure border. The fault is all Congress. That being said it is getting worse during the Biden (and his border Czar that can't seem to find the border) administration instead of better . Of course it might help if they didn't spend so much time and effort minimizing what is actually happening. It seems your comment is an attempt to minimize what is happening now, just like Joe and his minions are doing.
You mean he was attempting to deflect away from your deflection? That would be at least a 50% discount.
No, the issue is Jeremy claiming that we need a completely secure border and it is Biden's fault that we do not have one. If you'd read before replying you'd know this.
There is no such thing as completely secure. Do you think that our current border security is adequate?
Would have been a lot more secure if Biden hadn't shut down the wall project. At least it would have slowed them down. And now we are spending millions for shutting down the contract as well as the materials also.
Bottom line and undeniable fact, no matter how much the hard core liberal left want to cite otherwise, is that our Southern border was much more secure before Biden took office in 2020.
Point out where I said "COMPLETELY secure the border". Maybe you should go back to @1 and read it again. If need be, have somebody explain it to you on your level.
Point out where you said a "partially" secure border.
You added the word "completely", was that just a mistake or did you mean to be dishonest?
You can't point that either.
So when there are no facts you just make shit up and then expect them to defend a statement they never made. You don't find that a bit disingenuous?
And yet we are supposed to believe that every person crossing the border illegally are "asylum seekers".
From what's been reported at the border, more than 90% of asylum seekers don't qualify but the Biden Administration releases them into the USA without legal or medical vetting anyway.
This just in ... one of millions ...
So there's that "asylum seeker" lie put to rest.
You just gotta love Sanctuary Shitholes.
It was like that even during the Obama years, but it's been exacerbated during his unofficial 3rd term (transformation of the USA).
They get what they vote for! But not allowed on Martha's Vineyard!
So you feel that "asylum seekers" should be denied asylum without due process? That the actual 10% (by Jasper's unsubstantiated numbers) can just fuck off? Just kick all of them out without any consideration?
There you go. YOU said it. PROCESS.
When they go through the correct process, then that's something to work with. Crossing the border illegally isn't part of that process. They had plenty of locations to apply for asylum BEFORE crossing illegally.
Please explain what the correct process is according to asylum law.
Crossing the border illegally does not prevent you from requesting asylum. I have posted the laws regarding this many times, but you have apparently ignored or refused to read the actual law each time.
So what? The law does not require "legally" crossing the border.
That was how it was before Biden became president and removed that procedure.
Here you go.
Note the lack of illegal border crossings.
Apparently it doesn't make one immediately eligible either.
And yet somehow you failed to link them here.
Immigration law does.
Odd how many on the left forget that little tid bit.
Good god!!!! You didn't even bother reading your own link, did you?????????
You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within 1 year of your arrival to the United States.
It's in your own link, the 2nd sentence under "Who is Eligible to Apply for Asylum".
Correct, how you cross has nothing to do with eligibility.
That's because I have you to link the law where is clearly states that you don't have to legally enter to apply for asylum. The only difference is that if you'd bothered to read what you linked, you wouldn't have linked it because it clearly shows you as WRONG!
YOU specifically were talking about asylum seekers.
I read it. The difference is I understood it.
Bullshit!
I quoted the sentence. It can't be any clearer.
You may apply for asylum regardless of your immigration status and within 1 year of your arrival to the United States.
With how long it takes for the asylum process it it is bullshit. Anyone in this country illegally should be deported, period.
Brandon has granted illegal immigrants a free stay in the US.
Democrats do love their criminals and will ignore any law to aid them. Unless they are Conservatives/Republicans- then they will stretch any law, fabricate evidence, and violate the law and Constitution to prosecute them.
Your opinion and not the law. Jeremy was trying to argue what the law was, and he was completely wrong.
Saw the movie "Sound of Freedom" last week and the tale it is sending out is scary as hell. Human trafficking is getting way out of hand and our southern borders are becoming, more and more, a sieve for the illegal flow.
You think that is scary, you should see the original "Alien". If we are accepting fiction as fact, "Alien" should mean that we give up on space exploration and just hide in a deep cave somewhere.
So you are saying Sound of Freedom, or more importantly, child trafficking, is fiction?
Deflecting now, huh?
Yes, "Sound of Freedom" is fiction. It is a movie and like most movies takes a fictional stance on some real life circumstances. But that doesn't make the movie any less fictional.
Do you mean like the movie Selma?
Many people think that documentaries (with or without real life footage) are merely fictional accounts, just because they're "movies".
Yes, like "Selma", "Sound of Freedom" is a fictionalized version that may be based on some actual events.
Nine hundred children is, unfortunately, only the tip of this tragedy. There are tens of thousands of children who've been trafficked all over the US on Biden's "watch".
And the left wing media calls Sound of Freedom a QAnon, radical right conspiracy even though the movie was made 5 years before QAnon even existed? HAH!
The border wall of Trump's dreams could have been built for less money than NYC alone will spend on illegal migrants over the next few years.