Terrell County, Texas, is a vast but sparsely populated county along the Texas Border with Mexico (fewer than 800 people live within its 2,358 square miles). So you can imagine how few law enforcement officers there are to respond to 911 calls.
Lately, the Terrell County Sheriff’s Office has been responding to 911 calls not from US citizens, but from illegal aliens who realized they were risking their lives trying to cross a barren Big-Bend desert landscape where the sun is relentless and water (once you leave the Rio Grande) is hard to come by:
The night before, the Terrell County Sheriff’s Office, along with lawmen from three other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, spent hours responding to another 911 call from illegal aliens requesting rescue from a highly remote area:
Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland served for decades as a US Border Patrol Agent before being elected to the top law enforcement job in the county.
Not all of the 911 calls his department receives about illegal aliens in distress end well. Recently, Sheriff Cleveland responded to assist his counterparts in neighboring Brewster County to help retrieve the body of a Mexican citizen who had perished in a remote area there.
“The terrain here is the most unforgiving among the 2,000-mile stretch of border with Mexico,” -Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland.
I recently wrote a more in-depth article about this, which you can read HERE (but it appears the situation is escalating, hence this follow-up article).
Should more law enforcement officers be sent to the Texas Big Bend to help curb the increase in illegal crossings from Mexico?
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
This is where those Anduril surveillance towers might come in handy...
https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-deploys-300th-autonomous-surveillance-tower-ast-advancing-capability-for-border-security/