Texas Border Project
Austin – Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Public Safety Department (DPS), and the Texas State Guard continue to work with the Trump administration to secure the border. Stop smuggling drugs, weapons and people in Texas. It also prevents, detects and prevents cross-border criminal activity between ports of entry.
Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, multi-agency efforts have led to more than 532,800 undocumented immigrant anxiety, more than 52,900 criminal arrests, and more than 44,800 felony charges. In the fight against the fentanyl crisis, Texas law enforcement has seized more than 671 million deadly doses of fentanyl, inadequate to kill all men, women and children in the United States, Mexico and Canada, along with its border mission.
Operation Lone Star continues to work to cancel the damage caused by the Biden administration. All individuals with drugs that were arrested or arrested and seized would otherwise have invaded Texas and the country’s communities due to open border policies.
Recent highlights of Operation Lone Star:
Governor Abbott: Border intersections will be stopped once President Trump’s border policy is in effect
On Sunday, Gov. Abbott took him to X, officially known as Twitter, reporting that illegal border crossings were slow to crawl as a result of President Donald Trump’s powerful border policy.
The Lone Star staff work has continued to work with federal partners to secure the southern border to keep America safe.
Earlier this month, DPS acquired another fugitive from Texas’ 10 most wanted crime immigrant lists.
Carlos Venegas Ortiz, 46, an illegal criminal immigrant from Mexico, had hoped to exclude Tarrant County from October 2024 due to the continued sexual abuse of young children, but was taken into custody on Wednesday, April 9th ​​at an apartment in the city of Hartom. Ortiz was arrested.
Last summer, Gov. Abbott set up the list of Texas’ 10 most wanted criminal crimes immigrants, finding and arresting repeated offenders who have illegally entered the country, seeking dangerous crimes committed in Texas.
Find out more about capturing illegal immigrants of this criminal here.
DPS arrests Mexican mafia gang member, four illegal immigrants
Last week, the DPS trooper was led on high-speed trajectory by a smuggler driving a red Dodge Ram on an IH-35 in Webb County.
Smuggler John Henry Romero and a member of the Mexican mafia gang from Rio Bravo, Mexico, continued to evade the premises before scrambling from the vehicle after crashing into a private ranch fence. With the support of the Border Patrol, he was arrested and arrested.
Four illegal immigrants from Mexico, including a 15-year-old, have also been arrested. Romero is charged with three counts of smuggling people, smuggling people under the age of 18, arresting, reckless driving and one count avoiding criminal mischief. The DPS troopers introduced four illegal immigrants to the Border Patrol.
Watch: DPS arrests human smugglers and arrests five illegal immigrants in Webb County
Last Thursday, a human smuggler driving a Red Chevrolet Tahoe led a DPS trooper on a high-speed pursuit on an IH-35 in Webb County. Smuggler Carlos Alejandro Hernandez Brione, a native of Laredo, was hit by two vehicles during the pursuit. Brion and two illegal immigrants eventually bail out of the vehicle and jumped into the Rio Grande River. DPS troopers deployed rescue grablines to prevent Brion from drowning when two illegal immigrants swam to Mexico.
Five more illegal immigrants were deployed inside Tahoe, referring to the Border Patrol. Brions was arrested, and charged with smuggling five people, avoiding arrests and reckless driving.
Watch: DPS K-9 arrests 19 illegal immigrants
Driving work lone star, DPS K-9S Shark and Bona and its handlers, along with DPS’ cross-border patrol units, assisted the Border Patrol in the arrest of 19 illegal immigrants in South Texas from April 11 to April 16.
K-9S Shark and Bona tracked illegal immigrants through thick brushes in the counties of Maverick, Dimmitt and Webb. This collaboration between DPS’ K-9 and Border Mounted Patrol units and Border Patrol highlights the importance of state and federal law enforcement partnerships to ensure borders.
Each month, K-9 bonuses and her handlers continue to track illegal immigrants along the border, helping them with their insecurities in protecting our nation and nation. Earlier this month, K-9 bonuses and her handlers tracked a group of illegal immigrants across nearly two miles in Webb County.
DPS Special Agent Grabs a Bunch of Three Drugs
On April 13, DPS special agents responded to the port of Paso del Norte in El Paso about three subjects believed to be trying to smuggle drugs into the United States via internal concealment. While DPS had obtained body cavity search warrants for two other subjects, one subject voluntarily agreed to be medically tested.
After a thorough search, a total of three bundles of M-30 fentanyl pills, fentanyl powder, and methamphetamine were recovered. Special agents arrested one female subject for the production and delivery of a controlled substance.
The Texas National Guard provides personnel and support for the Border Patrol
The Texas State Guard continues to strengthen border security efforts by providing critical talent and support to Border Patrol agents and joining Ride Along to strengthen its surveillance and response capabilities along the Texas-Mexico border.
During these rides, Texas National Guard soldiers work side by side with Border Guard agents, observing operations, providing important information and assisting in anxiety. Their presence covers more positions and enhances the agent’s ability to respond promptly to incidents in remote or busy areas.
As border missions continued to evolve, Texas National Guard soldiers expanded their roles under Title 8. Texas State Guard soldiers work with the Border Guard to increase operational effectiveness and strengthen their unified commitment to national securities
Texas National Guard Soldiers Training to Be Fatal in Battle
Texas National Guard soldiers train daily to combat illegal activities along the border. It is important for soldiers to assess a wide range of skills, including physical fitness, to prevent, detect and block cross-border criminal activity between ports of invasion.
“I train every day, regardless of the best warrior race to be as deadly as possible in combat,” said private first class Jacob Carous. “What motivates me every day is to be the best version of myself and pursue it every day. I encourage people who are thinking of competing to find their reasons.”
The Best Warrior Competition is an annual US military event that tests the skills, knowledge and physical abilities of soldiers.
