Texas to begin "deporting" migrants that cross illegally

 Breitbart:

Governor Greg Abbott announced that the Texas National Guard would begin operations to turn back migrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande. The announcement followed discussions on the accomplishments of the Operation Lone Star border security mission.

“When we first began (Operation Lone Star) we were apprehending people and initially when we would apprehend people crossing the border illegally, we would turn them over … to the Border Patrol and/or ICE,” Governor Abbott explained. “Then when we realized the Biden administration was allowing these people to go free, we stopped turning them over to the Border Patrol and ICE and we started detaining them in jails that we created.”

Governor Abbott said state law enforcement officials began arresting the migrants for a “multitude of other crimes.” Those crimes included smuggling, trespassing, and other more serious crimes.

“Now we have come up with a more effective strategy for preventing them from even getting into the country to begin with,” the governor announced. “There’s a new category called ‘turnbacks.’ We’re working on strategies that will turn back people that are trying to make it across.”

“We have different strategies to achieve that,” he explained. “In some locations where there’s a water line where there’s a river and people are trying to cross that river, we put razor wire down there so that people are unable to get across.”

“We also are using boats in water — we will build a boat barricade —  to prevent people from even being able to even get across the water.”

The governor said the state will present a “show of force” to deter people from crossing into Texas.

“They see on the other side, there are several hundred National Guard waiting there to apprehend them,” he stated. “Through these strategies and others, we’re working to repel people from even coming across the border to begin with.”

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The cartels that are paid by the migrants appear to be moving some of their operations to Arizona as a result of the Texas effort. 

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