Texas Deploys Special Border Force To Drive Back Expected Migrant Surge – By Doina Chiacu (IB Times) / May 8, 2023
Texas deployed a special border force on Monday to target “hot spots” where migrants try to enter the United States illegally after sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the Mexican border end this week, Governor Greg Abbott said.
Abbott, a Republican who has been fiercely critical of Democratic President Joe Biden’s decision to end the Title 42 policy on Thursday, said members of the Texas Tactical Border Force, a new specially trained National Guard unit, were being loaded onto Black Hawk helicopters for deployment.
“They will be deployed to hot spots along the border to intercept to repel and to turn back migrants who are trying to enter Texas illegally,” Abbott said at a news conference.
A similar tactic was used in El Paso successfully last December, he said. In the last couple of days, he said, the National Guard identified and suppressed a surge in crossings at Brownsville, the same city where a driver plowed into a group of migrants on Sunday.
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