6 months ago
21
(NewsNation) — Patrolling the United States’ confederate border remains a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job.
That is particularly existent successful areas on the borderline that are utilized by smugglers and immigrants who participate the United States illegally to fell from U.S. borderline agents and different migration officials.
NewsNation's Border Correspondent Ali Bradley and Senior National Correspondent Brian Entin will springiness you an exclusive look astatine the borderline situation successful America and however the nation's 3 borders — southern, bluish and aerial — are kept safe. Tune successful to NewsNation connected Saturday, March 1, for their hour-long peculiar "Crisis At The Border: On The Frontlines" astatine 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT. Not definite however to find NewsNation connected your TV? Use our Channel Finder here.
NewsNation was fixed the accidental to thrust on with troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety on the Rio Grande Valley. The country has seen an uptick successful migrants entering the United States illegally and smugglers who are looking to currency successful and determination radical and amerciable drugs crossed the borderline into the United States.
Texas DPS says that smuggling networks are adapting faster, and they are making millions successful the process. Even arsenic the fig of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally declines, Texas DPS officials are seeing a tiny surge successful smuggling enactment successful the Rio Grande Valley.
However, arsenic officials effort to negociate that surge, 1 bureau cannot bash it alone.
Texas DPS partners with U.S. Border Patrol agents and members of the Texas National Guard to effort and way migrants that migration officials qualify arsenic “gotaways”.
In astir cases, the Texas DPS works to find if it tin record authorities charges against those they brushwood and complaint them with smuggling radical crossed the border. In different cases, U.S. Border Patrol officials record national charges for quality smuggling.
The agencies besides enactment unneurotic to halt the travel of amerciable drugs being moved crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
As the effort continues to effort to find and apprehend smugglers, smuggling groups successful Mexico are moving successful smaller groups, searching for areas that are not being patrolled. Working successful conjunction with different agencies similar the U.S Border Patrol, Texas DPS relies connected tools similar drones to show what is happening connected the crushed on the border.
“It’s truly a squad effort,” Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Guadalupe Cazarez told NewsNation. “The bulk of time, our (Border Patrol) agents are processing individuals, and that’s wherever we travel in. We effort to screen that spread truthful that these radical bash not get crossed (the border).”
