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Red state illegal immigration crackdown produces nearly 50K criminal arrests
Fox News ^ | January 16, 2025 | Peter Pinedo

Posted on 01/17/2025 2:51:42 AM PST by george76

Texas has held the line against the Biden-Harris border crisis for the past four years

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the state’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and Tren de Aragua (TdA) migrant gang activity have reduced illegal crossings by nearly 90% and resulted in close to 50,000 criminal arrests.

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led to 530,400 illegal immigrant apprehensions and over 49,900 criminal arrests, with more than 42,900 felony charges...

Texas became the first state to build a border wall on its own, continuing border wall construction at strategic points despite Biden putting a stop to it .

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Our top priority is the safety and security of Texans, including against the growing threat of Tren de Aragua .. We will not allow this gang to gain a foothold in Texas.

The governor’s office also said that during Operation Lonestar, Texas law enforcement seized over 620 million lethal doses of fentanyl, which they said is "enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the United States, Mexico, and Canada combined."

The office noted that Abbott designated TdA, whose violent crime has been sweeping across the nation, a foreign terrorist organization and launched a strike team to target, identify and arrest members of the group.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four TdA members crossing the border on New Year's Eve, one of whom was identified as a high-ranking member of the gang.

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Lone Star has cost Texas more than $11 billion, all of which was spent on efforts to secure the border, including deploying thousands of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers, transporting migrants to sanctuary cities, installing strategic barriers, cracking down against violent gangs like TdA, and building new border wall.

"Because of these efforts, Texas has decreased illegal crossings into the state by 87%,"

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Colorado; US: New Mexico; US: Texas; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: border; bordercrisis; borderenforcement; crisis; gangs; illegals; immigration; migrantgang; migrantgangs; migrantsgang; tda; texas; trendearagua; war; waronterror

1 posted on 01/17/2025 2:51:42 AM PST by george76
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To: george76

And Biden steals Texas’ successful efforts by claiming the fewer border crossings as his accomplishment...


2 posted on 01/17/2025 3:04:27 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: george76

Good strategy.

Drive all the illegals to sanctuary cities by cracking down on them in Red States, put up a blockaid fence, and cut all government subsidies to them.

Buy lots of popcorn.


3 posted on 01/17/2025 3:33:12 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Thank God Biden and his goons and thugs will be out of power soon...


4 posted on 01/17/2025 3:56:31 AM PST by GOPJ (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS if anyone wants to live in an overpopulated hellhole they can MOVE there..)
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“Because of these efforts, Texas has decreased illegal crossings into the state by 87%,”

That’s aliens walking across the border. Too bad they didn’t have a way to stop the ones being flown OVER the border. I don’t even know if there’s a way to DO that. I hope Homan has a plan for that. The fly-over system is how Biden was able to say there were fewer border crossings.

They were dropping them at the Chattanooga Airport in the dead of night a couple years ago, but don’t know if that’s still happening. We’ve heard that that’s been happening at many smaller airports, too.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 4:02:37 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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God bless Texas!!!!


6 posted on 01/17/2025 4:03:29 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Texas became the first state to build a border wall on its own, continuing border wall construction at strategic points despite Biden putting a stop to it .

Militarize the border with armed patrols. Attack helicopters giving air support to troops on the ground, and treat every crimigrant as an armed invader.

7 posted on 01/17/2025 4:43:44 AM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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To: george76

50k doesn’t scratch the surface


8 posted on 01/17/2025 4:44:33 AM PST by albie (U)
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DeSantis is proposing state legislation to enable his law enforcement contingency to deport illegals in his state, Every red state governor should follow his lead. They won’t have to deport them because their illegal migrants will flee to blue sanctuary jurisdictions that never thought they would be impacted by the invasion they invited in. Sanctuary Massachusetts will come to learn that choking on their feigned virtue is reason enough to stop transmitting virtue signals to the globe


9 posted on 01/17/2025 5:24:02 AM PST by chuckee
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Land mines would have been a less expensive and more effective solution.


10 posted on 01/17/2025 6:53:24 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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Time to start sending lawbreakers back to their homes. We’ve already got enough of our own lawbreakers with local yokel “americans”.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 7:09:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Joe Pedophile's deal with the devil is finally coming to an end. Thank you Lord. Amen.)
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