Border getting out of control
Gov. Abbott Says Mexican Cartels Are Trying to Overwhelm Border Patrol With Women, Children
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/gov-greg-abbott-heads-to-texas-mexico-border-tuesday-amid-ongoing-humanitarian-crisis/2574223/
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) says he witnessed people crossing the Texas-Mexico border Tuesday and said Mexican drug cartels are flooding the border with women and children to overwhelm the Border Patrol to make it easier to smuggle drugs into the country.
The governor visited the Texas-Mexico border Tuesday to highlight security efforts amid a mounting humanitarian crisis.
The visit comes after Saturday's announcement of "Operation Lone Star," a plan by the state to fill the gaps in border security left by the federal government. Operation Lone Star "integrates DPS with the Texas National Guard and deploys air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas to deny Mexican cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas," a news release said.
After taking an aerial tour of the border Tuesday morning, Abbott landed in Mission and addressed the media with a fiery speech where he said he was able to witness several illegal border crossings that were designed by cartels to overwhelm the U.S. Border Patrol and make it easier to move in drugs and move out cash and guns.
Abbott then said it was reprehensible that the federal government had not yet provided COVID-19 vaccines to Border Patrol members who are on the front lines.
"What I'm about to tell you is maybe one of the most reprehensible things I've heard this whole time," Abbott said. "The Biden Administration is not providing vaccinations for the Border Patrol. We have Border Patrol officers whose lives are on the line on a daily basis, an hourly basis, and the Biden Administration will not step up and provide those Border Patrol officers with the vaccinations they need. The Biden Administration should surge vaccines to Texas to all men and women on the Border Patrol this week and ensure that every Border Patrol officer in the state of Texas will be vaccinated this week. Anything less than that is the epitome of inhumanity."
…More than 3,200 unaccompanied migrant children are being housed in Customs and Border Protection holding facilities, two sources confirmed to NBC News. The New York Times, citing internal CBP documents, first reported that the number of detained children "tripled in the last two weeks."