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Video Shows U.S. Border Patrol Cutting Razor Wire Fence To Let People Cross Into Texas
Police Tribune ^ | 3 July A.D.2023 | Sandy Malone

Posted on 07/04/2023 2:24:28 PM PDT by lightman

Eagle Pass, TX – A controversial video has gone viral that shows a U.S. Border Patrol agent cutting the razor wire fence installed by the state of Texas to let illegal immigrants cross the border into the United States (video below).

The Texas Department of Public Safety (TDPS), who put in the security fences on private property with the permission of the owners, said this is the first time their agency was aware of something like this happening, FOX News reported.

The state agency said it has permission from the property owners to arrest any illegal immigrants found there.

The video filmed on a cell phone showed a uniformed U.S. Border Patrol agent using a wire cutting tool to snip concertina wire that had been placed along the banks of the Rio Grande River.

Then the video showed the agent held the wire back and gestured for a line of undocumented immigrants on the shoreline to cross through safely.

The video showed at least two dozen illegal immigrants proceeded up an embankment to a fence along a roadway, where yet two more uniformed federal law enforcement officers helped hold open another section of fencing that had been cut.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) put out a statement to explain what they said was happening in the video, FOX News reported.

The agency said that the people seen crossing through the fence line at the behest of federal agents had already arrived on the shore and were suffering in the heat.

“It is a federal responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration laws. U.S. Border Patrol continues to enforce U.S. immigration laws,” the CBP statement read. “The individuals had already crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico, were on U.S. soil, and are subject to U.S. immigration laws.”

“Individuals who cross unlawfully will be subject to the lawful pathways rule, which places common-sense conditions on asylum eligibility, with certain exceptions. Those who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States will be removed,” the statement continued.

Once people cross into the United States, border patrol agents have to process them, FOX News reported.

However, if Texas law enforcement officers encounter undocumented immigrants in their jurisdictions, the state can immediately deport them.

Data showed that more than 1.6 illegal immigrants crossed the southern border into the United States since October of 2022, FOX News reported.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: boarderpatrol; border; openborders; texas
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1 posted on 07/04/2023 2:24:28 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Twitter link:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1674849236448313372


2 posted on 07/04/2023 2:24:42 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

An act of treason.


3 posted on 07/04/2023 2:25:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

“An act of treason.”

Wait for the “I was just following orders” defense.

You know it’s coming.


4 posted on 07/04/2023 2:31:17 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: lightman

OK, people need to be arrested over crap like this.


5 posted on 07/04/2023 2:33:13 PM PDT by sauropod (Sun Tzu: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”)
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To: Paladin2

What defines a country?

Some say, “borders, language, culture”.

We no longer have a common commercial language “press one for English”...often followed with some jibberish which I presume to be some Chinese dialect.

We no longer have a common culture; unless one can consider the homogenization of all cultures (”diversity is our strength”) to be a culture in its own right.

And, snip, snip...there goes the border.


6 posted on 07/04/2023 2:36:32 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

DeSantis supports deadly force at border and warns cartels will end up ‘stone-cold dead’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/desantis-supports-deadly-force-at-border-and-warns-cartels-will-end-up-stone-cold-dead/ar-AA1d4oX7


7 posted on 07/04/2023 2:37:07 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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To: lightman

Is there a link to the video available ?


8 posted on 07/04/2023 2:41:25 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988 ("As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.")
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To: AirForceVet1988

It may be available through clicking the Police Tribune URL i the title section.


9 posted on 07/04/2023 2:42:52 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) put out a statement to explain what they said was happening

They're liars. Every branch of the federals are nothing but liars. Trump's indictment. The J6 protests. The 2020 election. They're all liars.

10 posted on 07/04/2023 2:51:09 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: lightman

His palm must be being greased by the cartels who own our southern border.


11 posted on 07/04/2023 2:58:37 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: lightman
Then the video showed the agent held the wire back and gestured for a line of undocumented immigrants on the shoreline to cross through safely.

Helping the enemy. Treason.

12 posted on 07/04/2023 2:58:43 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: lightman

Texas is eventually going to have to act like a sovereign nation and do what is necessary.


13 posted on 07/04/2023 3:05:28 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: lightman

media doing a great job keeping the invasion of the country very quiet. Soon as title 42 ended and the horde started crossing, media blacked out the story.


14 posted on 07/04/2023 3:06:03 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: LouAvul
They're liars. Every branch of the federals are nothing but liars. Trump's indictment. The J6 protests. The 2020 election. They're all liars.

Partner, we all agree!

The POTUS is in "SENILE STATE".

15 posted on 07/04/2023 3:10:33 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: lightman

Link not work.


16 posted on 07/04/2023 3:14:10 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: Wonder Warthog

https://policetribune.com/video-people-cross-into-texas/

Scroll down...video at bottom of page played for me one minute ago.


17 posted on 07/04/2023 3:15:47 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Warrant to enter private property?
Court order to destroy property?
Escorting people through private property without a warrant?


18 posted on 07/04/2023 3:16:13 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: lightman

Texas ought to arrest him. He can have his trial right after all the political prisoners from J6 get their fair trials.


19 posted on 07/04/2023 3:22:06 PM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: lightman

Arrest the agents that cut the wire. Like in ten seconds. If they were following orders, name names at trial.


20 posted on 07/04/2023 3:23:03 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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