EXCLUSIVE: Gov GregAbbott_TX's decision to surge state troopers to the state's border with Mexico two years ago has resulted in thousands of human smuggling attempts thwarted and a revelation of how many people have slipped past Border Patrol.
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to surge state troopers to the state's border with Mexico two years ago has resulted in thousands of human smuggling attempts thwarted and a revelation of how many people have slipped past Border Patrol, according to a Washington Examiner investigation.
“Were it not for Gov. Greg Abbott’s leadership and Operation Lone Star, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, as well as gang members, human traffickers, sex offenders, thousands of weapons, and over 373 million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl, would have made their way into towns and cities across this state and country with little in the way to stop them," DPS spokesman Travis Considine said.
"You can’t swing a dead cow without hitting a smuggling load," Sheriff Brad Coe said of border adjacent Kinney County in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "They say, 'Oh, the border’s secure.' I have to call bulls*** on that." From March 1 through March 15, 2023, Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio region apprehended 12,705 illegal immigrants. Border Patrol observed an additional 6,300 people crossing but was unable to intercept them, Martinez said. It was these"gotaways," the illegal immigrants who slipped past federal agents, who later loaded into getaway vehicles and were pulled over by state troopers further up the road.
— Anna Giaritelli September 30, 2022 In late September 2022, a 17-year-old girl from Austin died while smuggling people in a pickup truck. She crashed the truck into the side of a tractor-trailer while speeding through downtown Uvalde. A @TxDPS Trooper thwarted a human smuggling attempt on US 281 in Brooks Co. During a roadside interview, the trooper learned the driver had her children - 14 y/o & 10 month - as she attempted to smuggle 3 illegal immigrants from Mission to San Antonio. #OperationLoneStar pic.twitter.com/0VAn5M0GqK
In Biden’s first full month in office, 215 illegal immigrants were found in vehicles pulled over by troopers. By March, the first month of Operation Lone Star, that figure had increased to 1,205 and eventually peaked at 4,242 in September 2021. El Paso County experienced a surge in traffic stops late last year — a 1,900% increase in traffic stops from 2021 to 2022 — from six stops to 120 stops. More than two-thirds of traffic stops in 2022 occurred between Dec. 19 and Dec. 31, when Abbott sent additional DPS and National Guard to the area due to an increase in Border Patrol apprehensions in the region, according to a DPS spokeswoman.
@TxDPSSouth Trooper attempted to stop a passenger car on US 281 & Red Gate in Edinburg #RGV for a traffic violation. Driver refused to stop and evaded resulting in the driver crashing into an irrigation ditch. The vehicle was reported stolen out of Edinburg.#OperationLoneStar pic.twitter.com/QJ0hVK1yLp
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