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State of Texas Makes Deal to Build Border Fence on Tribal Lands
breitbart.com ^ | 2/9/2022 | Randy Clark

Posted on 02/10/2022 9:24:59 AM PST by rktman

EAGLE PASS, Texas — A new section of border fence is expected to go up locally as the result of a partnership between the State and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas. The new section, constructed by the Texas Military Department, will be located south of Eagle Pass on tribal lands.

On Tuesday, officials with the Texas Military Department and the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol met with members of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe to discuss the border fence project. The exact scope of the project was not revealed. A Texas Department of Public Safety official says the project is part of Operation Lone Star.

“The border crisis has impacted the tribal reservation significantly. The tribal council has for the first time allowed a government to construct security fencing on the reservation,” Captain Joel Betancourt said.

The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe’s reservation is located eight miles south of Eagle Pass. The reservation is located on the banks of the Rio Grande. There, the tribe operates the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino. The tribe also operates a pecan orchard and owns ranches in Texas and Mexico.

According to a source with the Border Patrol in the area, the tribe has always been a strong proponent of border security. The source says the tribe has allowed Border Patrol to place surveillance equipment and offer security assistance on their lands.

The source says the tribe is sympathetic to the economic plight of migrants crossing in the area but also recognizes the need for security to safeguard residents living on the reservation. In 2001, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas allowed the installation of two remote surveillance towers to monitor what was then one of the busiest border crossing points for narcotics and migrants in the area.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; fence; fenceitjim; texas
Let the juice jokes commence. But, even the tribal folks understand the need for fences.
1 posted on 02/10/2022 9:25:00 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

If it doesn’t include gun towers, fuggetaboutit.


2 posted on 02/10/2022 9:29:00 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: rktman

Was the deal was closed with Kickapoo Joy Juice shots all around?


3 posted on 02/10/2022 9:31:16 AM PST by skeeter
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To: rktman

But, even the tribal folks understand the need for fences.
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Amen.

Alot of us halfbreeds , and full bloods , are passionately patriotic.


4 posted on 02/10/2022 9:43:30 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: cuz1961

“passionately patriotic”=insurrectionists? See my tag line.


5 posted on 02/10/2022 9:45:07 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Just build it. Geeze.


6 posted on 02/10/2022 10:11:11 AM PST by stanne
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To: skeeter

Li’l Abner would be proud.


7 posted on 02/10/2022 10:29:01 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: HighSierra5

gun towers with guns that are aimed and actually fired.

After 100 or so dead female illegals, the flood will revert to a trickle.


8 posted on 02/10/2022 10:31:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: cuz1961

So are a lot of Navajo out West. In NM and AZ.

Our local church has a mission relationship with one group in NM.


9 posted on 02/10/2022 10:54:44 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: rktman

Where. Up on the Red?


10 posted on 02/11/2022 5:49:48 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT)
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