Texas National Guard arrests 32,000 illegals for trespassing, human smuggling

 Washington Examiner:

National Guard members deployed in Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott have arrested more than 32,000 people on state trespassing and human smuggling charges as part of a highly unusual operation that has turned soldiers into law enforcement officers, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Most of those arrested are noncitizens who illegally crossed the international border from Mexico into Texas and, in doing so, trespassed onto private land, according to a spokeswoman for the Texas Military Department. The arrests began in July and the numbers go through late October.
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In a letter sent on July 27, Abbott ordered TMD Major General Tracy Norris to take new action. Abbott cited Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution’s authority for the governor to "call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State” and instructed Norris to do so.

Those arrested by the military would be transferred to law enforcement to be booked into the system. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw acknowledged that the military doing police work was unusual.
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State officials would not provide additional information about the border operation, though Bensman wrote in a recent report for CIS that the state is only arresting men. Women, children, and families are turned over to the Border Patrol. More than 140 landowners have agreed to let the state erect fencing on their land and to "become complainants in misdemeanor-level criminal trespassing cases that DPS officers will charge (and have been charging since July)."
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To be an effective deterrent they must get the word out to the caravans headed toward Texas.  Perhaps they will change their route and go to California where people are fleeing the evils of liberalism.  So far it looks like Gov. Abbott has created another dilemma for Biden's open borders policies.