Texas Could Draw First Blood
with Dangerous C-Wire Dealing
Capitol Inside
May 15, 2022
As people from foreign countries crawled in groups into Texas over fences crowned with sharp metal coils, Governor Greg Abbott signaled on Sunday that the state is giving away razored wire to police in Mexico in a coordinated attempt to defuse a tidal wave of migrants that's destined to intensify in the coming weeks.
"Texas is taking unprecedented action to secure the border because Biden refuses to enforce the immigration laws passed by Congress," Abbott said in a tweet that included a Fox News Twitter post on the donation of bladed wire to police in the Mexican state of Coahuila to string on the south shore of the Rio Grande across from Eagle Pass.
The Texas Military Department plans to deliver an untold amount of concertina wire to the Coahuilans in Eagle Pass where they will train them how to install it before they take it back across the river. Commonly referred to as c-wire, the fencing is typically employed in wartime and built to maim and kill people who try to climb over it.
Children will be the most likely victims of the concertina wire if the Mexican police are really serious about putting it up. It would come as no surprise, however, if drug cartels that control northern Mexico use the bladed wire to fortify the security of luxurious haciendas instead of erecting a fence that would cause serious injuries and deaths among the same people that they're smuggling into Texas. The cartels will make the ultimate decision on how the stainless-steel and rust-resistant c-wire from Texas is used.
The Department of Public Safety announced the gift to Coahuila to Fox News on Saturday. The DPS confirmed to Fox News today that the exchange and training will take place in Eagle Pass instead of Piedras Negras as reported initially this weekend. Abbott is controlling the narrative on Operation Lone Star by having the DPS and TMD feed bits and pieces of information exclusively to Fox News and other conservative news outlets.
The TMD - for example - told a Fox News reporter last week that it was investigating reports of women coming and going between Texas National Guard vehicles that were parked at the river in Del Rio. Local residents near the river said women would spend hours at a time in the military vehicles every day. But the state military agency didn't announce the apparent prostitution probe to the public on social media or its web site or in any other form or fashion.
The videos and photos that the selective leaks have spawned in the past week show hundreds of migrants crossing the river in Eagle Pass at the same spot every day like clockwork. The scenes make it appear like Operation Lone Star is completely invisible to people who've traveled for months and suffered hardships that are unfathomable in America. To think that they would be afraid to climb a fence after what they've endured up to now is mind boggling.
The Texas National Guard started putting up barbed wire at the popular daily crossing spot in Eagle Pass on Saturday. A Fox News video that afternoon showed a group with a half-dozen migrants including at least two small children climbing over the barbed coils on a fence at the river that cordons off private property. The exercise appeared to be a minor convenience at best as Border Patrol officers waited on the ground below.
The U.S. Border Patrol posted a photo this weekend of a 12-foot alligator floating in the Rio Grande near the same stretch of shoreline as the constant migrant crossings. While an alarming number of migrants have drowned in the river in recent months, there have been no reports of alligator attacks.
The incoming tsunami's inviability was on display in El Paso on Sunday as well when more than 1,200 migrants arrived there on Saturday - with many planning to wait until the Title 42 pandemic policy is repealed with a target date of May 23.
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