Texas officials rescue over 20 migrants from cross-border train smuggling operation

The Texas Department of Public Safety, on Sunday, rescued over 20 migrants from a train smuggling operation close to the border city of Eagle Pass. One of the migrants required medical consideration. 

Border patrol brokers have been more and more disrupting train smuggling operations in the Del Rio sector, a 55,063 sq. mile part of Texas, with over hundreds of apprehensions taking place weekly. 

BORDER AGENTS CONFIRM 1.2 MILLION ‘GOTAWAY’ MIGRANTS UNDER BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

Border crossings have dramatically elevated the previous few years with 310,531 border encounters occurring in 2017 in comparison with 2,214,652 in 2022. As of January 22, 2023 there have been 639,032 border encounters. 

“President Biden‘s self-made security crisis, with millions of unvetted individuals entering our country illegally, should concern every American,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) told Fox News Digital. “Texans are standing up when the Biden Administration is standing by.”

Human trafficking is estimated to be roughly a $150 billion industry with the International Labor Organization estimating 25 million victims of human trafficking around the world.

Republicans have been up in arms at the increase in border crossings, with many going as far as to call for the impeachment of United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. 

AMID BORDER PATROL RECRUITMENT CRISIS, ONE STEP OF THE HIRING PROCESS IS WIPING OUT TONS OF APPLICANTS

“The entire world knows our southern border is wide open. Until this Administration starts changing their rhetoric and actions, we’ll proceed see migrants from tons of of nations risking their lives to come back to America like this,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) advised Fox News Digital. “At the end of the day — an open border is immoral for the people that live above and below it. This is just another example of that.”

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP