2023-06-21 01:00:00
The forces of public order and the Florida National Guard sent to Texas since last May by Governor Ron DeSantis have intervened in the control of more than 10,000 undocumented immigrants on the southern border with Mexico, official sources reported Tuesday.
Troopers dispatched by DeSantis assisted the Texas Department of Public Safety in the arrest of more than 600 people,”including a member of the MS-13 gang who was on the terrorist watch list.” of the United States, reported the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM).
Some were charged with “serious crimes of people smuggling, drug trafficking or illegal possession of weapons”.
Last May DeSantis announced the sending of aid to Texas to secure the southern border in the face of the immigration crisis that, in his opinion, has been created by the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
Among the troops sent to Texas are more than 300 soldiers from the Florida National Guard, whose mission is “help” to control the “mass migration on the southern border” establish “static observation points”carry out “itinerant patrols” and the assistance of engineers to improve operations.
In addition, regarding thirty agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) remain deployed to assist in the investigation of “criminal activities along the border associated with human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs and weapons.”
FDLE agents deployed drones 531 times that helped identify the location of 1,560 undocumented immigrants, and seized cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, firearms, and ammunition boxes.
A total of 101 agents of the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), which are also part of the so-called Operation Lone Star (Lone Star), “repelled more than a hundred undocumented immigrantss” who tried to push by force on the bridge of Brownsville, to cross the US border illegally.
Troopers participated in 2,541 traffic stops, 79 commercial vehicle inspections, and 47 pursuits.
FHP agents detained two suspects involved in smuggling people into the United States and had “encounters” with undocumented immigrants from Brazil, China, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, Iran, Africa, the Dominican Republic , Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador and Middle East countries.
“All of them were detained and turned over to the United States Border Patrol,” señala el FDEM
Also on Texan soil are regarding 90 officers from the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) who are assisting in the “border security, intelligence gathering, humanitarian response, search and rescue efforts, and emergency medical services”among other tasks.
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