{"id":25246,"date":"2021-12-02T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25246"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:26:09","slug":"texas-own-border-wall-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/12\/02\/texas-own-border-wall-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Drops Curtain on Border Crossers, Sort Of"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a new wave of migrants<\/a> laps along the southern border, Texas is barricading a key entry point under international bridges in the town of Eagle Pass. Whether Operation Steel Curtain<\/a> will deter illegal crossers, or just reroute them up or down the largely unpatrolled Rio Grande, is an open question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A row of some 20 giant shipping containers, interspersed with armored vehicles, now form a front line on the riverbank. Behind them is a phalanx of Texas state troopers as a second line of defense, according to a Border Report<\/a> dispatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About an\nhour downriver from Del Rio, where 15,000 Haitians and other migrants crossed\nthe Rio Grande in September, Eagle Pass is Texas\u2019 latest stand against an\nongoing surge of illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov.\nGreg Abbott declares, \u201cTexas is securing the border.\u201d But is it really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Operation Steel Curtain operates anything like the state\u2019s Operation Lone Star<\/a> (OLS), the results may be disappointing. Since it was launched last spring, OLS has apprehended a little more than 1,000 illegal aliens on state and local charges (mostly trespassing). But limited participation by South Texas prosecutors has hobbled the program. Local officials cannot deport anyone, even as 22,651 illegal aliens<\/a> were encountered at the Texas-Mexico border in just one week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all\nits heavy hardware, Steel Curtain is even more restricted. For now, Eagle Pass\nis its only operational site along the 1,241-mile Texas-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\nNational Guard spokesman Mike Perry says the Steel Curtain platform will enable\nstate troopers and guardsmen \u201cto surge personnel, equipment and capabilities\nanywhere within the state of Texas to low-water crossings so we can repel and\nblock any large caravans coming across.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perry\nsaid Guard units and the state Department of Public Safety are working with\nranchers to put up blockades and other tactical devices. Chinook and Black Hawk\nhelicopters are also being utilized \u201cas air insertion for deterrence,\u201d he told\nBorder Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Guardsmen and state troopers conducted maneuvers<\/a> in the Eagle Pass area last month in preparation for a possible Del Rio-style deluge, no one knows precisely where the next onslaught will occur. Texas officials are betting on Eagle Pass (home of the Lucky Eagle Casino) and here\u2019s hoping they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet even\nif the state\u2019s riverfront operation works to perfection, any detained illegal\naliens will be turned over to U.S. Border Patrol for \u201cprocessing.\u201d In all too\nmany cases, that means their release into the country under liberal asylum\nrules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day, the $2 billion<\/a> Texas is spending on border enforcement operations is offset, or at least diminished, by the radical and irresponsible immigration policies of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a new wave of migrants laps along the southern border, Texas is barricading a key entry point under international bridges in the town of Eagle Pass. Whether Operation Steel Curtain will deter illegal crossers, or just reroute them up or down the largely unpatrolled Rio Grande, is an open question. A row of some<\/p>\n

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