Texas Democrats, including most recently El Paso state Rep. Cesar Blanco, continue to attack DPS claims about border security as well as the need for a significant build-up in state border security resources. With Democrat skepticism about such in mind, realize that on Monday near Roma in Starr County, Mexican drug cartel operatives engaged in a gun battle with U.S. law enforcement.
Breitbart Texas reports: “Border Patrol agents spotted several men in camouflage clothing on board a raft. One of the agents began to hear gunshots and noticed that the rounds began to hit nearby. He took out his handgun and fired three shots at the gunmen. Another agent was able to help his fellow agent escape from the area… The case is being investigated by the Starr County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”
With Democrat skepticism about such in mind, realize that on Monday near Roma in Starr County, Mexican drug cartel operatives engaged in a gun battle with U.S. law enforcement.
“The area just south of Starr County is a known staging area used by Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, a ruthless crime syndicate that is responsible for the drug and human trafficking that takes place in the region known as the Rio Grande Valley,” Breitbart’s Ildefonso Ortiz reports.
This isn’t by any means the first incursion, there have been many such as last August when “a team of cartel gunmen crossed into Texas to kidnap a man who was then taken into Mexico,” Ortiz reminds. He adds that the “Gulf Cartel has also been behind multiple other kidnappings and murders in Texas. These include a 2011 double homicide in Brownsville where a team of hit men gunned down a cartel member and his bodyguard who had been driving along a highway less than a mile from the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office.”
No wonder some conservative state senators want change in Texas House leadership so we can deal more directly with border security without the Speaker’s chairmen fouling up legislation.
Texas border security needs keep presenting themselves
Robert Pratt
Texas Democrats, including most recently El Paso state Rep. Cesar Blanco, continue to attack DPS claims about border security as well as the need for a significant build-up in state border security resources. With Democrat skepticism about such in mind, realize that on Monday near Roma in Starr County, Mexican drug cartel operatives engaged in a gun battle with U.S. law enforcement.
Breitbart Texas reports: “Border Patrol agents spotted several men in camouflage clothing on board a raft. One of the agents began to hear gunshots and noticed that the rounds began to hit nearby. He took out his handgun and fired three shots at the gunmen. Another agent was able to help his fellow agent escape from the area… The case is being investigated by the Starr County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.”
With Democrat skepticism about such in mind, realize that on Monday near Roma in Starr County, Mexican drug cartel operatives engaged in a gun battle with U.S. law enforcement.
“The area just south of Starr County is a known staging area used by Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, a ruthless crime syndicate that is responsible for the drug and human trafficking that takes place in the region known as the Rio Grande Valley,” Breitbart’s Ildefonso Ortiz reports.
This isn’t by any means the first incursion, there have been many such as last August when “a team of cartel gunmen crossed into Texas to kidnap a man who was then taken into Mexico,” Ortiz reminds. He adds that the “Gulf Cartel has also been behind multiple other kidnappings and murders in Texas. These include a 2011 double homicide in Brownsville where a team of hit men gunned down a cartel member and his bodyguard who had been driving along a highway less than a mile from the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office.”
No wonder some conservative state senators want change in Texas House leadership so we can deal more directly with border security without the Speaker’s chairmen fouling up legislation.