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(NewsNation) — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is preparing for surges astatine the confederate borderline arsenic radical effort to participate the U.S. before Donald Trump returns to the White House.
“We inactive privation to support a proactive posture. We don’t privation to beryllium reactive,” said Lieutenant Chris Olivarez of the Texas DPS. “We privation to beryllium acceptable for anything, for immoderate imaginable surge.”
To that end, Texas DPS officers person been conducting “mass migration response” exercises on the border. Among the strategies is stationing DPS officers successful their vehicles, with flashing reddish and bluish lights, each fewer 100 feet on the border.
DPS said that strategy is successful spot successful the Rio Grande Valley, Del Rio and El Paso Border Patrol sectors. Officers person besides placed loudspeakers on the borderline that play backmost a short, pointed connection that tin beryllium heard crossed the Rio Grande successful Mexico.
“Atención, atención. Es ilegal cruzar aquí. Hay una cerca aquí. Este nary es un puerto de entrada,” the connection says successful Spanish, translated as, “Attention, attention. It is amerciable to transverse here. There is fencing here. This is not a larboard of entry.”
While the Texas DPS and the U.S. Border Patrol hole for a imaginable surge up of President Trump’s January 20 inauguration, it’s imaginable the surge mightiness not hap acknowledgment to Biden medication policies that person importantly slowed amerciable crossings.
“We’ve seen a important alteration successful amerciable borderline crossings, particularly successful Texas, wherever numbers are down astir 86%,” said Olivarez.
The Biden policies see denying the close to asylum to anyone who arrives astatine the borderline distant from an authoritative larboard of introduction and without an asylum assignment with Customs and Border Protection.
But portion individuals whitethorn deliberation doubly astir illegally entering the U.S., the cartels are moving harder than ever to smuggle radical across.
Two caller examples of the cartels’ desperation were the find of idiosyncratic hiding wrong the state vessel of a semi-tractor and radical “welded” into the assemblage of a pickup truck. Border Patrol agents had to pry the sides of the motortruck to uncover radical wrong the body.
