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Texas Reclaims Island From Mexican Cartels in Fight to Secure Border
Epoch Times ^ | 0/29/2023 | J.M. Phelps

Posted on 10/29/2023 3:28:01 PM PDT by george76

For Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, the operation was a small victory in the much larger battle against human traffickers..

In the fight against Mexican cartels, Texas law enforcement recently took control of a dangerous island used by human traffickers.

The Epoch Times spoke to Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who identified Fronton Island as possibly “the most violent part” of the Texas–Mexico border. Belonging to Texas, Fronton Island is an island in the Rio Grande River. According to the General Land Office, “Fronton Island has been a hot spot for drug and human trafficking and dangerous cartel activity in the past couple of months.”

Ms. Buckingham further described the island as “a law enforcement-free refuge, one where cartels went for refuge when they needed it.” On Sept. 7, she issued a letter to the Texas Department of Public Safety, authorizing law enforcement access to the state-owned 170-acre island.

On an island where fully automatic weapons were once being fired regularly at night, as two violent cartels fought over its control, she said, “Law enforcement set foot on the island for the first time on Monday [Oct. 2].”

Ms. Buckingham cannot speak to the details of the operation, but said the island has been reclaimed by an elite force of Texas Rangers. “Clearing the island and taking away [the cartel’s] shelter, they are finding caches of weapons and more than I can’t speak fully about,” she added.

With a Texas flag planted on the island, Ms. Buckingham considers the operation a win against illegal immigration, drug trafficking, and human trafficking—but the scope of the problem exceeds this single region.

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“Texas is still getting flooded with illegal immigrants,” she said. “We’re seeing millions and millions of folks coming across the border.”

To put this in perspective, she said, “The New York mayor is complaining about thousands of people coming [into his city], while Eagle Pass [in Texas] expects far more than that.” The numbers of migrants Eagle Pass has to brace for is “the equivalent of 2.7 million people illegally coming to New York every week.” In addition, she said, “these are not just family units, but a whole lot of young, military-aged males.”

“Recent surges of illegal immigrants are setting new records for crossing the border,” she said. “There are numerous videos circulating online showing thousands of people literally storming across the border,” she added. “This is literally an invasion.”

For those actually being processed by Border Patrol to enter the country, she said, their earliest court date to begin a legal process for their entry into the country would be the year 2027. “With a court date years in the future like this, many will just disappear,” she said.

STREAMING ACROSS THE BORDER..

According to Ms. Buckingham, “nearly everybody who comes who comes across the border has a wristband that indicates which cartel they belong to.”

“Everyone who comes across is owned by somebody, so you're basically seeing the largest increase in slavery that this world has ever seen,” she said. “Many are now obligated to the drug trade or the human trafficking trade because the cartels are controlling who crosses the border.”

“With enough fentanyl across our border to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States, this has to stop,” she said, adding that “Texas is doing everything we possibly can to get this stopped.”

One of the things Texas is doing is “creating a criminal record for the people who come across and break our laws so that they're easily identifiable,” she said. “Because of [President Joe] Biden’s policies, what we’re seeing right now is a lot of criminals who simply get turned back around to their country to turn around again and walk back across the border.”

“While Texas is fighting on every front and will continue to fight,” she said, “people need to seriously think about who they’re voting for in Congress and for president, because we need people who will enforce policies that stop illegal immigration, and the trafficking of drugs and people into our great country.”

In September alone, Border Patrol encountered a record 269,735 migrants at the border; 218,763 of whom were attempting to illegally enter the country. In fiscal year 2023, a record 169 people on the terror watch list were apprehended, and more than 25,500 pounds of fentanyl was seized at the border.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: border; cartels; dawnbuckingham; fentanyl; frontonisland; invasion; riogrande; slavery; texas

1 posted on 10/29/2023 3:28:01 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Thank you, Texas! I don’t get how a president who allows and even promotes this directed and choreographed,breaking of our laws is allowed to continue on as our sitting president.

I thought there were enough laws in place to prevent this from ever happening. Apparently, there is not enough will to enforce those laws, not from either party! Big disappointment, but little surprise.


2 posted on 10/29/2023 3:34:21 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

(p)Resident Tapioca Joe is in charge of NOTHING. He’s a sock puppet.


3 posted on 10/29/2023 3:39:20 PM PDT by dadgum (Enough!)
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To: george76

4 posted on 10/29/2023 3:39:54 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: dadgum

And that is on a GOOD day for him.


5 posted on 10/29/2023 3:40:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: george76

But only supposed to be a “three hour tour, a three hour tour”.


6 posted on 10/29/2023 3:42:17 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: george76

“For those actually being processed by Border Patrol to enter the country, she said, their earliest court date to begin a legal process for their entry into the country would be the year 2027.”

Instead of 70,000 new IRS agents, add 45,000 new border control agents and 25,000 new immigration judges.


7 posted on 10/29/2023 3:47:34 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: lee martell
I don’t get how a president who allows and even promotes this directed and choreographed,breaking of our laws is allowed to continue on as our sitting president.

That's because he's not really calling the shots.

Who is?

Ask yourself who, of all those with significant power with strong connections to the central US government actually hatefully resents the US.

Ask yourself who, of all those with significant power with strong connections to the central US government actually wants to fundamentally 'transform' the US, and has stated this unequivocally.

Ask yourself who, of all those with significant power with strong connections to the central US government have the kind of sketchy ill-defined background devoid of details such that it is not difficult to believe that they were groomed to infiltrate our government and weaken the US.

8 posted on 10/29/2023 3:51:39 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: george76

“Secure border”.....😂😂😂😂😂😂👍! 🚫🔓!

🙏🇮🇱👍


9 posted on 10/29/2023 3:55:27 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Labyrinthos

“25,000 new immigration judges.”

Who will grant them asylum and they will voting within a year.


10 posted on 10/29/2023 3:57:32 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: neverevergiveup

I don’t hear many republicans blowing this issue up to the big deal it actually has become. The whole world knows Joe is mentally ‘out of it’ most the time. Yet the GOP is not collectively acting to expose this, and protect the American people from third party management. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, Sen. John Kennedy and MTG can’t and shouldn’t have to do it alone, possibly sacrificing their own careers.
President Joe’s fiscal interests are shared and protected by the RINO Block of the GOP.


11 posted on 10/29/2023 4:12:16 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: george76

Nice to know that some things are still true! Kick a grizzly in the butt, slap your grandma, kiss a rattlesnake, but do not mess with a Texas Ranger!


12 posted on 10/29/2023 4:28:46 PM PDT by FrozenAssets (You don't have to be crazy to live here, but it helps)
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To: george76

A few A-10 missions could clear up all of these “misunderstandings” in no time.


13 posted on 10/29/2023 6:04:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

14 posted on 10/29/2023 7:57:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 10/29/2023 7:58:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
whoops.
16 posted on 10/29/2023 7:58:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: lee martell
 
 
I saw a lengthy report about this just a couple of days ago. It's been something of a no man's land situation, so Texas dove in and took responsibility with a military-style approach. They've bulldozed the entire island of vegetation, down to bare dirt, to where there is no cover and are putting up fortified beach defenses with concentrated surveillance assets. Looks like a pretty tight job they're doing, just wondering how long until the smugglers & traffickers in the Mexican government and the FJB Regime go to whining about it and try to take it all down.
 
 

17 posted on 10/30/2023 1:59:57 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

Just a matter of time before the Mexican drug runners pull on that Weak Link aka Pres. Biden.


18 posted on 10/30/2023 3:18:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: george76
In September alone, Border Patrol encountered a record 269,735 migrants at the border; 218,763 of whom were attempting to illegally enter the country.

...And what were the other 51M of them doing? Already in the country when they were encountered? Attempting to illegally cross the border into Mexico? Hanging out and cooking beanies and weinies?
19 posted on 10/31/2023 11:22:10 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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