EXCLUSIVE: Texas National Guard Granted Authority to Make Immigration Arrests

The memorandum, which has not yet been disseminated to all Texas border sectors, will allow the soldiers to perform roving patrols and exercise all the duties of an immigration agent so long as a U.S. immigration officer or Border Patrol agent accompanies them. According to the MOU, the ratio of soldiers to immigration officers is preliminarily listed as one officer to four soldiers.

Title 8 United States Code arrest authority was granted to multiple federal law enforcement agencies just days after President Trump’s inauguration. On January 23, the Department of Homeland Security authorized federal law enforcement agents to investigate, determine the location of, and apprehend migrants in an illegal status. The details of that memorandum, obtained and released in a recent news report by CBS News, are similar to the memorandum of understanding reviewed by Breitbart Texas.

The duties of the Texas National Guard soldiers are law enforcement-related, generally reserved for agents assigned to specific agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.

The latest granting of immigration arrest authority adds at least 3,000 Texas Army National Guard soldiers to the number of ATF, FBI, and United States Deputy Marshals who are now assisting the Department of Homeland Security in enforcing federal immigration law.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @RandyClarkBBTX.

1 posted on 02/02/2025 2:38:28 PM PST by ViLaLuz

2 posted on 02/02/2025 2:40:20 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)

To: EvilCapitalist

3 posted on 02/02/2025 2:44:38 PM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)

4 posted on 02/02/2025 2:59:32 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

Send David Hogg to stop them.

Pretty please??

5 posted on 02/02/2025 3:01:31 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)

Further exposing what liars the FJB Regime were, whining about "limits" of authority, funding and all that, were part of the problem, the corruption of it. It comes down to the will to do and follow through.

6 posted on 02/02/2025 3:17:46 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)

excellent news!!!!!!!

7 posted on 02/02/2025 3:21:46 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")

8 posted on 02/02/2025 3:23:19 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)

9 posted on 02/02/2025 3:30:36 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)

First stop Dallas...

10 posted on 02/02/2025 4:03:13 PM PST by Tennessee Nana

To: Tennessee Nana

In many states the law allows a citizen to do a citizen’s arrest for misdemeanors up to felonies.

Federal law should allow the same. Then there would be open season on anyone that commits an immigration crime.

11 posted on 02/02/2025 4:08:34 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper

To: Toughluck_freeper

Entering our country illegally is an IMMIGRATION crime...

12 posted on 02/02/2025 4:10:35 PM PST by Tennessee Nana

To: Tennessee Nana

Yes. There a Hakeem Jeffries insurrection going on there right now.

13 posted on 02/02/2025 4:12:41 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)

They aint hiding in the shadows

14 posted on 02/02/2025 4:14:59 PM PST by Tennessee Nana

All they have to do is go down to the RIO GRANDE river
and they will have all they can handle.

Many photos here

15 posted on 02/02/2025 4:18:59 PM PST by deport

To: EvilCapitalist

IIRC-—THAT IS CALLED A “FORCE MULTIPLIER”

16 posted on 02/02/2025 9:28:54 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)

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