Texas law enforcement disputes Mayorkas claims about secure border

 Fox News:

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Sgt. Marc Couch says his troopers are working diligently to combat criminal activities connected with human smuggling, fentanyl and weapons trafficking across the southern border, which "is not secure," contrary to the Biden administration's claims.

Couch and his agents work as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's "Operation Lone Star," which was launched in March 2021 with the Texas National Guard in order to "combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas." Since its founding, the operation's efforts have led to over 225,000 migrant apprehensions, over 13,000 criminal arrests, and seizures of over 3,500 weapons and 289 million deadly fentanyl doses.

Couch spoke with Fox News Digital on the Mexico-Texas border in El Paso Friday, saying that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' comment last week that the border is "secure" is a "misnomer of a statement."

Mayorkas remarked last week during a speech at the Aspen Security Forum that the border is "secure" and "we are working to make the border more secure. That has been a historic challenge." He went on to criticize lawmakers who won’t commit to broad immigration legislation until the situation is addressed, while also adding "there is work to be done."

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"The border is not secure. If you're down here for any length of time whatsoever, you come down and tour these areas, talk to anybody who works down here," Couch told Fox News Digital. "The border is not secure when you're seeing in the RGV [Rio Grande Valley] sectors mass migration of people who are just wandering across the border. That is a misnomer of a statement that has no truth in it,"

Senior DHS sources told Fox News this week that there have been more than 500,000 known "gotaways" since Fiscal Year 2022 began in October. That is much more than the 389,155 known gotaways in FY'21.

Per the sources, the United States is at nearly 900,000​ known gotaways since the beginning of FY'21, which is equivalent to a population bigger than the city of San Francisco sneaking across the border without apprehension.

Couch said the work of Texas DPS is to detect any criminal activity associated with enforcement actions. He said smugglers are getting more "creative" in their tactics to try and conceal migrants and drugs and successfully transport them across the border.
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The smuggling of illicit drugs, including deadly fentanyl, has been on the rise as well. In FY'21 the amount of fentanyl seized at the border from Mexico increased by 30% since before Biden took office and law enforcement called it enough to "kill every man, woman, and child in our country six times over."

Couch said the troopers are taking appropriate precautions to deal specifically with fentanyl, which can be fatal upon contact with even a tiny amount of the substance.
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The sergeant said the smugglers' treatment of the migrants they take across the border is scarring, especially the reports that over half of young girls being trafficked across the border are being raped.

"The treatment of human beings as though they're nothing more than property is something this country doesn't stand for," he said. "And it's something that as law enforcement, we're not going to stand for. It is a very, very sad and tragic event when you see young, young children, 8 or 9 years old, being raped, being sodomized, being marginalized in their life. You know, even if we get them saved from that situation and in a good place, what kind of pain and suffering are they going to carry within the rest of their life?"
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The Biden administration appears indifferent to the crime that goes hand in hand with their open borders policy not to mention the flouting of US immigration laws.  Biden's handling of the immigration laws is worthy of impeachment. 

See, also:

1,600 Previously Convicted Criminals Caught Crossing into Single Texas Border Sector This Year

And:

 Migrant deaths at southern border soar to new high under Biden