Texas Border Patrol Agents Face Danger Daily
Armed Cartel Members & High-Speed Chases endanger officers' lives
The dangers faced by Border Patrol Agents along the Rio Grande were made clear by two developments this week. The first instance involved an agent investigating a suspected smuggling incident near the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica near the mouth of the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico/America:
Not many details have been released - except to acknowledge that the Border Patrol Agent responding to the smuggling incident opened fire on the suspect - who was taken to a hospital for treatment. The person who shot the image above reported that dozens of other Border Patrol vehicles, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety and FBI Agents, were on the scene.
US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) issued the following statement:
Border Patrol Agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector have been taking extra precautions ever since Mexican Cartel Gunmen fired across the river at them on January 1, 2025, in Starr County. Agents were investigating a case of human smuggling when they were fired upon. The agents returned fire at the gunmen, who eventually fled.
The second development this week that outlined the dangers Border Patrol Agents in Texas face occurred when Congress passed the "Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act."
Agent Gonzalez was killed in a crash that occurred a little over two years ago while he was pursuing illegal immigrants at high speed in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector. The Bill that bears his name makes it a federal crime to flee from Border Patrol Agents and state or local officers enforcing immigration laws.
High-speed chases involving cartel smugglers are - unfortunately - very common in Texas border counties and endanger the lives of the officers pursuing them as well as other motorists.
This week, a New York man was sentenced to ten years in prison for leading South Texas officers on a 110-mile-per-hour chase that ended in a rollover that injured 11 migrants he was smuggling in the bed of a pick-up truck. The accident occurred on July 18, 2022, in Kendall County. Peter Diaz-Vasquez was convicted of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens, causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy.
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
Put on chain gangs for decades. They run into innocents and get off with nothing. Chip them and deport to congo with parachutes