The Texas National Guard are making things difficult for human smugglers and the cartel doesn’t like it. Numbers of crossings were slashed when state level authorities took decisive, targeted action. “I’ve been getting phone calls from coyotes on private numbers,” declares nervous U.S. property owner Joaquin Villegas. “They’re telling me that I have to get rid of the police or I will see what happens to me.”
Texas secures the border, hard
Human smuggling operations have been “disrupted” by the Texas National Guard. Alejandro Mayorkas and Kamala Harris aren’t happy about it because it makes them both look like they really are totally useless. Joe Biden doesn’t care, because he’s off to Jeffrey Epstein’s favorite chain of Virgin Islands, on “vacation.”
Some are wondering if he’ll actually return. Things are imploding around him and the border crisis is a big block of rock about to drop on his head. Then, there’s that pesky criminal investigation and all those terrible Twitter Files.
The only thing Texas troops had to do was string some razor wire across a gap in Trump’s wall and zero in like a laser on “a once-safe waypoint just north of the border wall” in El Paso. Gee, why didn’t the federal government think of that? The owner of “two abandoned duplexes” is caught in the crossfire.
This morning, service members deployed to El Paso, Texas constructed a triple-strand concertina barrier near the border to secure the area from illegal crossings. pic.twitter.com/X6JUkr9iQV
— Texas Military Dept. (@TXMilitary) December 25, 2022
Joaquin Villegas has apparently been making more by leaving the property abandoned. The structures sit next to “Loop 375 South, known as the Border Highway.” Migrants get to play “Frogger” across the six lanes, after the coyotes let them loose from the safe house. They don’t all make it across.
Texas authorities staked out the property and started raiding it every time a load gets dropped there. They already nabbed “dozens” of migrants. Each one a serious cash loss to the cartel.
They thought they had a deal with Joe Biden and they’re upset. The property owner has been getting death threats from one side and citations from the other. Mostly, for littering.
2.5k for a ride to Albuquerque
When Villegas dropped by his property recently, it was clear that, once again, “migrants had been using his empty buildings after breaking through the border to hide for an hour or two until smugglers could pick them up and move them on to their next location.”
He “found some stragglers the other day.” They offered him a quick “$2,500 to go to Albuquerque.”
The City of El Paso is suddenly on his case to “stop illegal immigrants from setting foot on his property.” They warned him that “if anyone dies, he would allegedly be responsible.” He probably was well paid to turn a blind eye but now he’s stuck. “How am I supposed to stop them? They can’t even stop them.”
All sectors along the border are increasing their response posture to protect Texas against the flood of migrants and cartel activity streaming into our state. pic.twitter.com/XMoZFPH5Ft
— Texas Military Dept. (@TXMilitary) December 23, 2022
The city is also hounding him to “clean up the vacant buildings, which takes him hours.” After every load comes through, he gets to be the housekeeping staff. Each week, “he picks up discarded backpacks, clothing, shoes and toiletries left behind.” Not this week.
Five hundred troops “have been deployed by the state to secure El Paso since the mayor declared a state of emergency over the immigration crisis.”
Because of the wide open border gaps and well greased underground railroad, “El Paso has become the busiest border crossing in the US, regularly seeing over 2,000 people attempting to cross in a single day.” A little razor wire just slashed that down to a trickle. Everyone wonders why Mayorkas never tried anything like that.