Texas counties declaring disaster over Biden's border crisis

 Epoch Times:

A Honduran woman’s body was found dumped in the brush on private property in Goliad County, Texas, after she had been smuggled hundreds of miles north from the border in March, according to county Sheriff Roy Boyd. In another case, an old shed on a ranch was being used to strip stolen vehicles in preparation for smuggling people.

Boyd says the county—which sits about 200 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border—is used as a staging area for smuggling illegal aliens to Houston.

“What happens is they’ll bring them up from the border to somewhere in this area. They’ll drop them off at a temporary holding site and then someone from Houston comes and picks them up and then takes them to Houston, where they’re distributed across the United States,” he said.

Goliad County, with a population of 7,600, is one of four Texas counties that issued local states of disaster last week due to the impact of the border surge. Three of the counties are located 40 to 200 miles north of the border but are dealing with cross-border crime and human smuggling every day.

In their declarations, each of the counties—Kinney, Goliad, La Salle, and Atascosa—said the “health, life, and property” of their residents are “under imminent threat of disaster from the human trafficking occurring on our border with Mexico.”

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 76,000 illegal aliens along the U.S.–Mexico border in the first two weeks of April. In addition, the average number of illegal aliens who evade capture is about 1,000 per day.

“The ongoing border crisis has resulted in thousands of illegal aliens invading South Texas and overwhelming our local, state, and federal law enforcement,” the Goliad County declaration reads.

“This continual violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity has resulted in residents of South Texas being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed, while also sustaining vast amounts of property damage.”

The declarations request that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deploy additional law enforcement personnel and state military forces to help control the situation.

Goliad County Judge Mike Bennett, who signed his county’s declaration, said he expects 200 or more of Texas’s 254 counties to follow suit.

“We don’t have a lot of redundancy in these small counties and it’s taking up every bit of their resources,” Bennett said during a public meeting in Westache on April 22.

“This needs to be addressed at the source—which is our border—and that’s what we’re hoping our governor will do.”

On April 26, Abbott asked county judges to send him a “full and accurate” estimate of the fiscal impact on their county so he can bill the federal government for costs incurred.

Boyd said he’s been dealing with border issues since 2005.

“I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” he said at the public meeting. “Things pretty much started drying up on the border during the last administration. Things were pretty much under control.

“Well, that came to a real fast end, and it’s the Wild West on steroids.”
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“I’d much rather see the federal government get off their duff and do something about this, but, I’m sorry, I have no faith. It’s going to have to come from the state of Texas. If the state doesn’t do something, it’s all going to be over.”
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Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe said he has six full-time deputies to cover 1,400 square miles.

“We can’t do it,” he said.

“My guys have been in more pursuits in the past year than most police officers will do in a lifetime. We’re catching more and more every day. We file charges, [then] we have to let them go because our jails are full.”
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It is pretty clear that Biden does not care about the damage his policy is causing.  About the only things Democrats in Washington care about these people is using them to steal House seats in Congress by counting them in the census.  The damage they do to citizens is of no concern to Democrats in Washington.  The Democrats on the border see the problem and are concerned but they apparently have no influence with the Biden Administration and its goal of stealing House seats. 

The Biden team was told this was going to happen and they did nothing to deal with it.

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“It is impossible for them to argue that they had no idea that this was going to happen,” said James Carafano, the conservative Heritage Foundation's vice president of foreign and defense policy studies. “The career people in the department told them what would happen. So they full-well knew that this was going to happen, but it is also clear that their response is inept, uncoordinated, and disorganized."
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Border Patrol agents were already struggling to return adults and now had to take every child into custody inside stations that were not equipped to hold children. The minors were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services, which searches for a family member in the U.S. to release the children to. By March, more than twice as many children were in federal custody than when the previous record was set in 2019 under Trump.

“In the case of unaccompanied children, [rescinding Title 42 for single children] provided incentives for their family members in the United States to pay smugglers to bring those children to the United States, in the anticipation that they would be quickly released,” said Art Arthur, a senior fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors restricting immigration.
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If Biden cares about what is happening he is doing a good job of hiding it.  I think he is in over his head and has no idea what to do, nor do any of the libs around him.