By: EFE Posted Jun 20, 2023, 19:03 pm EDT
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 this Tuesday.
The troops sent by DeSantis attended 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 human smuggling, drug trafficking or illegal possession of weapons.”
DeSantis sent troops to Texas
Last May DeSantis announced the shipment of aid to Texas to secure the southern border in the face of the migration crisis which, in his opinion, has been created by the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
Troops sent to Texas include more than 300 Florida National Guard soldierswhose mission is “help” to control “mass migration on the southern border” establish “static observation points”, carry out “itinerant patrols” and the assistance of engineers for the improvement of operations.
In addition, some thirty agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) 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 on 531 occasions that helped identify the location of 1,560 undocumented, 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 over a hundred undocumented immigrants” who were attempting to force their way across the Brownsville bridge to illegally cross the US border.
Troopers participated in 2,541 traffic stops, 79 commercial vehicle inspections, and 47 pursuits.
undocumented migrants
FHP agents detained two suspects involved in human smuggling 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 Eastern countries.
“All of them were detained and turned over to the United States Border Patrol”says the FDEM.
Nearly 90 police officers are also on Texan soil. Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), which provide assistance in the “border security, intelligence gathering, humanitarian response, search and rescue efforts, and emergency medical services.”among other tasks.
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