Texas Border: Large Migrant Groups Cross Remote Areas
Consequences may be deadly
As illegal crossings have dropped to 15-year lows along once-busy historic crossing points between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande, law enforcement officers are encountering large groups of illegal aliens in more remote areas of the Texas border.
Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland has posted photos of migrants encountered in groups of twenty by his deputies, Border Patrol Agents, and Texas Military Forces in recent days. The story is the same in the "badlands" of neighboring Brewster County.
Border Patrol Agents recently tracked more than 20 illegal aliens attempting to evade them in the rugged terrain of San Francisco Canyon within Big Bend National Park:
The increase in illegal crossings by large groups of migrants into more desolate areas of Texas is the result of the success of Governor Greg Abbott’s "Operation Lone Star” border security mission, which blocked heavily trafficked illegal crossing points in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso with razor wire barriers and expanded the "Border Wall" to prevent those who illegally crossed the river from moving further inland.
In addition, the state surged State Troopers - and Texas National Guard Troops (who are being deputized by the federal government to enforce US Immigration Laws) - to back up Border Patrol Agents along its 1,241-mile-long border with Mexico.
This has resulted in the Mexican Cartels shifting their human smuggling routes to these more remote areas of West Texas - something that was foreseen last month when the US Northern Command assigned Army "Stryker" teams to the Big Bend National Park:
The rough terrain, desert conditions, and lack of water in the remote areas migrants are now attempting to cross can be deadly. Cartel "guides" routinely leave those who can't keep pace with the rest of the group behind, often with fatal consequences:
“I don’t care if you’re a good guy or a bad guy, legal or illegal. I don’t want to see anybody die. That’s still somebody’s loved one,” Sheriff Cleveland told the New York Post earlier this year.
For Sheriff Cleveland and his deputies, what begins as an attempt to apprehend illegal aliens crossing his county often turns into a rescue effort due to the hot temperatures and lack of water they face in the desert terrain of Terrell County.
Such was the case involving a dangerously dehydrated migrant from Hidalgo, Mexico (seen receiving emergency medical care in the photo below), Sheriff Cleveland encountered in September of 2024:
This story has a happy ending for all involved. That man not only survived a life-threatening heat stroke- he reached out to Sheriff Cleveland via Facebook to thank him for saving him (even though he was jailed for illegally crossing the border):
Carlos Badilla told Sheriff Cleveland what happened to him after the ambulance the Sheriff called transported him for life-saving medical treatment:
Are you surprised to see a Mexican migrant who served time in jail for illegally entering the country express gratitude to a US law enforcement officer?
Share your opinion in the comments to this article.
Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
It's impossible to completely close the Texas southern border. If you've ever spent anytime in the western wilderness of Texas you know why. There are canyons that seem impassable and large uninhibited areas and any determined person can find a way. Better know the desert and be fit. It's beautiful.
Great piece! Thanks for sharing!