Posted on 02/27/2023 4:28:05 AM PST by george76
What's happening at the southern U.S. border with Mexico is in fact an invasion, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe says.
“We’re experiencing a silent invasion of military age men,” Coe told The Center Square when describing what his deputies have been increasingly facing over the past two years.
He spoke with The Center Square during an Operation Lone Star task force multi-day operation during which law enforcement officers rescued foreign nationals from a burning vehicle and revived a five-year-old girl being smuggled who’d been stashed inside of a car’s trunk.
The “silent invasion,” Coe said, is being committed primarily by single, military age men between the ages of 17 and 45 who are illegally entering the U.S. They’re wearing camouflage and carrying backpacks, according to video captured by cameras placed throughout the county viewed by The Center Square. Many are armed and dangerous, committing robberies and engaging in shootouts with law enforcement, Coe said.
The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels. Once they arrive in major U.S. cities, they are embedded with gangs and or cartel affiliates acting like a “Trojan horse,” Coe said. “They set up in our cities, take over through voting and or crime, and scare the local people who move out. It’s happening in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio,” he said, where crime has also exponentially increased over the last few years.
He said, “You can win a lot of battles without getting violent,” referring to the “silent invasion” as an act of war against the U.S. by Mexican cartels.
Coe last month sent out an SOS asking for help from other counties to apprehend human smugglers in his small border county of roughly 3,000 people. In response, law enforcement officers from 20 agencies participated in a days-long operation during which The Center Square participated in a ridealong.
As soon as the task force got started, officers were engaged in smuggling pursuits. He said, “the more people we have, the more effective we’ll be” at pushing smugglers and gotaways “out of the area.” Gotaways are those who illegally enter the U.S., don’t request asylum or make other immigration claims, and intentionally evade capture.
A retired Border Patrol agent, Coe took office Jan 1, 2017, and says he’s never seen what’s he seeing now in his entire life. Things first started getting bad after President Joe Biden altered border security and immigration policies, and have only gotten worse since, he said.
In 2022, for example, his deputies made 877 arrests, filing 3,057 felony charges. Of all the criminal cases filed that year, 927 were immigration-related involving illegal foreign nationals or smugglers, he said.
While these numbers are unprecedented, the number of people who got away are even greater. Detected on cameras making their way through the county on foot, nearly 21,500 foreign nationals were detected but weren’t apprehended last year. That’s at least seven times the size of the county’s population. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.
“The other unknown,” he said, “is what’s not on camera. You might see two or three are on camera but shadows are also visible indicating there are more people behind them. The camera only shows the 2 to 3 people.”
In 2022, Kinney County Sheriff’s deputies apprehended 3,192 illegal foreign nationals compared to the 1,124 they apprehended in 2021, according to the sheriff’s data.
In 2022, they apprehended 741 smugglers compared to 169 in 2021, Coe said, as he went through the data with The Center Square.
His deputies engaged in 139 pursuits and 136 bailouts in 2022 compared to 61 pursuits and 56 bailouts in 2021.
In 2022, they impounded 580 vehicles compared to 179 in 2021.
In 2022, deputies also seized 89 firearms carried by alleged smugglers, including some that were stolen, up from 29 in 2021.
Despite increased resources and funding through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star, apprehensions and crime continue to escalate, Coe said.
So far in 2023, their efforts and the stats are already breaking last year’s records across the board, he said. At least 6,600 illegal foreign nationals have been captured on cameras crossing through the county on foot, he said. “That’s an average of 150 a day. These are people who aren’t being caught,” he added.
His deputies already have apprehended 398 illegal foreign nationals and 96 alleged smugglers so far this year. They’ve also engaged in nearly 30 vehicle pursuits, including 27 bailouts, nearly all involving human smugglers, he said.
The majority of the alleged smugglers they’re catching are men from Houston between the ages of 17 and 25. Earlier this month they apprehended a 14-year-old who evaded arrest driving a stolen car, he said.
The overwhelming majority of alleged smugglers they’re arresting are U.S. citizens responding to social media ads hoping to make several thousand dollars per load. Those caught include a licensed security guard, attorneys, couples, and teenagers, Coe said.
Americans are coming to Kinney County from all over the U.S. Initially, they were from Oklahoma and Louisiana; now they’re also coming from Georgia, California, New York, and New Jersey, he said.
Their efforts would be severely limited were it not for support from the state, he said. “We couldn’t do what we’re doing without Operation Lone Star. Our county attorney handled 4-5 cases a month. Now it’s 150 every time we have court and we have court four times a week. We used to have district court once a month, now it’s 100 cases every time. The jury pool is busy, and we may end up with two grand juries to convene every other week.”
Military age men ? Yes
Invasion? Yes
Silent? Hell no.
It’s in our faces every day.
This will not end well
Words fail me……the really good guys/Patriots are putting their lives in danger every single day because our ‘President’ and his handlers hate them and hate America…..and hate us.
Where does it end.
I can imagine the good souls who try to protect us are being worn down to the bone.
Two hundred miles north of the border, Sheriff Roy Boyd of Goliad County, Texas, has placed warning signs at his county line, written in Spanish.
“Warning! Drug and human traffickers: Turn around, do not enter Goliad County,” the sign reads. “Go around. Otherwise, we are going to hunt you down and put you in Goliad County jail.”
He says they work. When the signs are up, cartel activity decreases, and when the Texas Department of Transport removes the signs, cartel activity picks up again.
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[and when the Texas Department of Transport removes the signs,]
Where is Governor Abbott? This should not happen.
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Where’s the National guard? Will we ever stop this onslaught on our southern border?
“The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels.”
Correction: The men are believed to be working or associated with Mexican cartels who are believed to be working or associated with the White House, who appears to be working or associated with the new world order..
Trump was but a temporary respite, and this country is going down. We thought we could embrace Satan and his works and all was going to be well?
Sounds like the Sheriff needs to put TX DOT personnel in jail also.
Regime enforcers?
It’s the giant civilian Army O’bama told us he was going to build. We have no credible U.S. military anymore. It’s now just another Job Corps with army hats and guns. A military designed to make the UN boyz in powder blue helmets look good.
“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” — Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008.
By golly, I believe you've figured it out..
Now, all we need is a LEADER, lots of rope, and the stones to do what needs to be done...
The Pentagon, full of woke mental case generals who are parading their transgender crap can’t do diddly squat to defend us. That is how bad America has fallen. by the time this piece of crap is out of office we will have at least 30 million invaders in this nation. You’re laughing? Saying I’m crazy?…go ahead I see it every day thousands upon thousands crossing our border! Our city officials don’t know what to do anymore. You hear airplanes flying at all hours of the night, trying to get rid of them by spreading them all over the nation. Effin stupidity!!! We ourselves are slitting our throats and destroying our nation while our officials look the other way. All these young age fighting men are ready to do what needs to be done to take down America either financially or terrorism.
All our brave men that sacrificed their lives for America are probably turning in their grave. I grieve with all those families that lost love ones in wars that gave their lives for nothing.
Fly them to Kiev.
If we had an Army of our own.
Barack Obama
Biden opens border
Good idea!
Alongside Gyorgy Schwartz and Klaus Schwab.
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