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    Walls Would Work in Laredo Sector, Says Border Patrol Chief



    May 16, 2018
    Bob Price

    The Laredo Sector has 170 miles of riverbank separating Mexico from Texas and zero miles of fencing or walls, says the local border chief–allowing Mexican drug cartels to move large quantities of drugs and human cargo into the U.S.

    “We have 170 miles of border with Mexico in the Laredo Sector alone,” Laredo Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens told Atlanta’s Fox5. “Right now, we have zero border wall.”

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    “These are highly equipped and highly capable adversaries that are causing all kinds of havoc in those border communities on a daily basis and it’s right next door to where we live,” Owens explained.

    It is not surprising that the Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas picked this region to bring across its cargo of Syrian and Bangladeshi nationals who are paying upwards of $27,000 each, Breitbart Texas reported.

    “When we talk about the different groups that are crossing into an area, what we’re trying to draw attention to is a more comprehensive look at our threat picture,” Acting Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens told Breitbart Texas during a recent interview. “We need to stay away from just focusing on the family units and Unaccompanied Alien Children that are coming from Central America and Mexico. What the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol are dealing with on a daily basis is so much more complex than that.”

    Owens, a Georgia native, told Fox5 reporter Randy Travis that they are using all of the technology and manpower at their disposal but that a “wall” and appropriate fencing would be a big help.

    Laredo Sector officials report that it only takes minutes for smugglers to cross someone over the river into Texas via a makeshift raft or floats. From there, the human cargo swiftly disappears into nearby stash houses until it is their turn to be transported northward to San Antonio, Houston, and points beyond.


    Laredo Sector agents find 36 migrants in a cartel-connected human smuggling stash house. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector)

    Border Patrol agents found 36 illegal immigrants in such a stash house earlier this month, Breitbart Texas reported. The migrants from Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras were packed into a small house in an area known for frequent human smuggling activity.

    Owens told the Fox5 reporter that no one crosses the border without the approval of the cartels.

    “According to the Border Patrol, it will cost a Mexican $5,000 to cross,” Fox5 reported. “Central Americans: $10,000. But it’s the group paying as much as $20,000 each that most worry the Border Patrol these days: immigrants from Bangladesh.”

    “It’s becoming a huge area of concern for us because the question becomes why are they coming across?” Owens posed. “Is it just to seek the American dream of the American way of life? The potential for threat is definitely there when you’re talking about somebody from a country with a terrorist nexus.”

    Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza expressed a similar concern during an interview last week with Breitbart Texas.

    “We don’t know the intentions of the two Syrians we caught sneaking across the border into Texas,” U.S. Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza said in his capacity as president of the National Border Patrol Council 2455. “What we do know is that if the cartel-connected smugglers can bring people with good intentions across the border, they can also bring people with bad intentions.”

    “We have 170 miles of river border with Mexico. Not one mile of that border has a physical barrier,” Garza said. “We are wide open for these drug and human smugglers.”

    Border Patrol agents are frequently assaulted on duty.

    “Every time they encounter someone, they don’t know who they’re dealing with and almost every time they’re significantly outnumbered,” Chief Owens told the Atlanta-based Fox affiliate.


    These hand-sized caltrops are potentially deadly weapons when deployed against agents during a pursuit, Border Patrol agents told Breitbart Texas. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)

    Recently, cartel-connected smugglers employed an even more dangerous tactic in their efforts to prevent agents from interfering in their illicit activities. The smugglers began dropping tire deflation devices known as “caltrops” in front of pursuing agents. At high speeds during a chase, a sudden tire blowout could cause a potentially deadly rollover crash, Border Patrol agents from the Laredo Sector said.

    “Because of the weight and sharp edges of these devices, if one were to come through a windshield or strike an agent through an open window, it could cause serious injury or death,” an agent who did not wish to be identified told Breitbart Texas.

    The agent said the caltrops are made of bent and sharpened pieces of rebar steel. “They are sharp enough to cut you when you pick them up,” the agent explained.

    Chief Owens told the Fox5 reporter that the border towns are much different today than in years past. He said most agents will no longer cross the border into neighboring Nuevo Laredo during their off-duty times for entertainment and dining.

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    GET BULLDOZERS DOWN THERE AND CLEAR A 1 MILE BUFFER ZONE AND BUILD THAT WALL!!!

    PUT A BIG ROLLER ON TOP, GREASE IT UP, AND DUMP THEM BACK IN MEXICO!

    DO NOT DETAIN...DEPORT WITHIN 24 HOURS TO STOP THIS HUMAN TRAFFICKING BY COYOTES!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    You want a wall and the river??!! Honestly, I'm getting a little tired of all the whines and demands from BP. Just get out there and do your jobs. You've got twice the personnel you had just a few years ago. We'll get you some more agents, boats and helicopters to guard the river. You can't build a wall on the river, you'll flood the whole area, then how do you arrest illegal aliens??!!
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    Burn those stash houses down.

    Let firefighters do the training and NO rebuilding until the neighborhood is cleaned up and the WALL is built!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Honestly, I'm getting a little tired of all the whines and demands from BP. Just get out there and do your jobs. You've got twice the personnel you had just a few years ago.
    As for 170 miles, one patrol-person for every quarter mile acting as a human wall? If 10 smugglers rush him, we object "in the strongest possible terms"?


    Quote Originally Posted by Judy
    You can't build a wall on the river, you'll flood the whole area, then how do you arrest illegal aliens??!!
    This is why we have smarter people than you working on the problem. You don't build the wall "across" the river, you build it along the river. Maybe down the middle of the river. That way they'd have to use a boat to get to the wall. And a ladder on a boat is a very unstable climb.

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    I didn't say "across" the river. It's ridiculous to build 170 miles of wall or fence on or along the river. Just patrol it. They know where they're crossing. They have routes. BP just wants to work the ports of entry and sit in their air-conditioned offices and vehicles. Get the troops out there, they know how to guard and patrol a river.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I didn't say "across" the river. It's ridiculous to build 170 miles of wall or fence on or along the river. Just patrol it. They know where they're crossing. They have routes. BP just wants to work the ports of entry and sit in their air-conditioned offices and vehicles. Get the troops out there, they know how to guard and patrol a river.
    WOW...I want 170 miles of WALL, not directly on the river. But bulldoze a buffer zone and put up the WALL at least 1/2 mile in.
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    You like the wall alot more than I do. I really don't like it, but I know we need it at least in certain areas. It's a shame though. Trump said he wasn't going to build the wall where there were natural barriers like rivers and mountains. As for myself, I hope he sticks to that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I didn't say "across" the river.
    Then how would it "flood the whole area"?

    Quote Originally Posted by Judy
    It's ridiculous to build 170 miles of wall or fence on or along the river. Just patrol it. They know where they're crossing. They have routes.
    So you want them to be targets?

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    BP just wants to work the ports of entry and sit in their air-conditioned offices and vehicles.
    Do you blame them?

    Quote Originally Posted by Judy
    Get the troops out there, they know how to guard and patrol a river.
    That seems to be against the law. And if the BP catches anybody, they get released anyway. So why risk their life for nothing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beezer View Post
    WOW...I want 170 miles of WALL, not directly on the river. But bulldoze a buffer zone and put up the WALL at least 1/2 mile in.
    The problem with that is many private citizens own the land, right up to the border. So you would be cutting their land in half.

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