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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (NewsNation) — A caller makeshift subject installation on the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful the Rio Grande Valley allows officials and subject work members to apprehension migrants and complaint them with "criminal trespass connected a subject installation."
More than 100 individuals person already been arrested and charged betwixt the El Paso and New Mexico areas. Border Patrol agents who spoke with NewsNation accidental the manpower of an further installation volition assistance them discourage amerciable crossings.
“That's however they (drug cartels) marque their money. That's however they marque their living, and they don't similar to spot a amusement of force,” said Border Patrol cause Christina Smallwood. “So absolutely, that would payment the United States Border Patrol. That is thing that we tin ever payment from.”
Since NewsNation crews person been successful the Rio Grande Valley this week, aggregate instances of quality smuggling person been observed.
Cartel drones person besides been spotted scouting connected the U.S. broadside of the border. It’s unclear, however, whose jurisdiction oregon authorization it would instrumentality to dismantle the drones.
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is calling connected the Federal Aviation Administration to supply guidance connected adversarial drones astatine the confederate border.
Border Patrol agents who spoke with NewsNation said they would enactment that further guidance.
“This is the United States of America,” said Smallwood. “And anybody who isn't present with the close volition — without the due documentation, without immoderate benignant of legality, past they conscionable simply don't beryllium here, and that goes arsenic good arsenic for drones. Anything that poses a menace to us, to our nationalist security, to our agents that are connected the ground, to our assemblage simply is simply a menace towards america and has nary crushed to beryllium successful our area.”
The White House says President Donald Trump takes each information threats earnestly and is looking into the reported drone sightings.
