The Texas Department of Public Safety on Sunday rescued more than 20 migrants from a train smuggling operation near the border town of Eagle Pass. One of the migrants required medical attention.
Border patrol agents have increasingly disrupted train smuggling operations in the Del Rio sector, a 55,063-square-mile section of Texas with more than thousands of apprehensions a week.
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Border crossings have increased dramatically in recent years with 310,531 border encounters occurring in 2017 compared to 2,214,652 in 2022. As of January 22, 2023, there have been 639,032 border encounters.
“The security crisis created by President Biden himself, with millions of people with no prior records entering our country illegally, should concern all Americans,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) told Fox News Digital. “Texans stand up when the Biden Administration stands by.”
Human trafficking is estimated to be an industry of approximately $150 billion and the International Labor Organization estimates 25 million victims of human trafficking worldwide.
Republicans have risen up in arms over the increase in border crossings, with many going so far as to call for the removal of US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
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“Everyone knows that our southern border is wide open. Until this Administration begins to change its rhetoric and its actions, we will continue to see migrants from hundreds of countries risking their lives to come to the United States in this way,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) told Fox News Digital. “At the end of the day, an open border is immoral to the people who live above and below it. This is just another example of that.”
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