Texas Counties Declare Disaster Over Border Crisis

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A Honduran womanโ€™s body was found dumped in the brush on private property in Goliad County, Texas, after she had been smuggled hundreds of miles north from the border in March, according to county Sheriff Roy Boyd. In another case, an old shed on a ranch was being used to strip stolen vehicles in preparation for smuggling people.

Boyd says the countyโ€”which sits about 200 miles north of the U.S.โ€“Mexico borderโ€”is used as a staging area for smuggling illegal aliens to Houston.

โ€œWhat happens is theyโ€™ll bring them up from the border to somewhere in this area. Theyโ€™ll drop them off at a temporary holding site and then someone from Houston comes and picks them up and then takes them to Houston, where theyโ€™re distributed across the United States,โ€ he said.

Goliad County, with a population of 7,600, is one of four Texas counties that issued local states of disaster last week due to the impact of the border surge. Three of the counties are located 40 to 200 miles north of the border but are dealing with cross-border crime and human smuggling every day.

In their declarations, each of the countiesโ€”Kinney, Goliad, La Salle, and Atascosaโ€”said the โ€œhealth, life, and propertyโ€ of their residents are โ€œunder imminent threat of disaster from the human trafficking occurring on our border with Mexico.โ€

Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 76,000 illegal aliens along the U.S.โ€“Mexico border in the first two weeks of April. In addition, the average number of illegal aliens who evade capture is about 1,000 per day.

โ€œThe ongoing border crisis has resulted in thousands of illegal aliens invading South Texas and overwhelming our local, state, and federal law enforcement,โ€ the Goliad County declaration reads.

โ€œThis continual violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity has resulted in residents of South Texas being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed, while also sustaining vast amounts of property damage.โ€

BYย CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

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