Posted on Dec 22, 2022
El Paso officials say they need humanitarian assistance not the National Guard
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On a cold morning along the banks of the Rio Grande, young men in military camouflage carry rifles and stand beside Humvees.
They're members of the Texas National Guard. A line of razor wire that they erected separates them from Mexico.
A man and a woman from Peru approach and break down in tears when they see the guard members. They say they want to come into the country and seek asylum.
"We didn't come to commit crimes. We didn't come to do anything. We just came to turn ourselves in," they say in Spanish.
The 400 Texas National Guard troops that arrived in El Paso this week don't have the authority to take these migrants - or others like them - into custody. That's the U.S. Border Patrol's job, but guard leaders say they have a mission.
"In our rules in the use of force, we can serve as a deterrent in telling them to stop, in telling them to turn around and giving them an optic that they can't pass," says Major General Ronald Win Burkett, II of the National Guard.
On a cold morning along the banks of the Rio Grande, young men in military camouflage carry rifles and stand beside Humvees.
They're members of the Texas National Guard. A line of razor wire that they erected separates them from Mexico.
A man and a woman from Peru approach and break down in tears when they see the guard members. They say they want to come into the country and seek asylum.
"We didn't come to commit crimes. We didn't come to do anything. We just came to turn ourselves in," they say in Spanish.
The 400 Texas National Guard troops that arrived in El Paso this week don't have the authority to take these migrants - or others like them - into custody. That's the U.S. Border Patrol's job, but guard leaders say they have a mission.
"In our rules in the use of force, we can serve as a deterrent in telling them to stop, in telling them to turn around and giving them an optic that they can't pass," says Major General Ronald Win Burkett, II of the National Guard.
El Paso officials say they need humanitarian assistance not the National Guard
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Stout, a Democrat, says the Republican governor has not provided help with this crisis and many local officials agree. What they really need, they say, is help with things like shelter for migrants in winter weather, especially as temperatures are expected to drop below freezing soon.
Meanwhile, the National Guard's efforts may not be deterring migrants, as was the case with the couple from Peru. Border Patrol agents just directed them to another spot downriver, where they joined a line of migrants also seeing asylum."...
..."Stout, a Democrat, says the Republican governor has not provided help with this crisis and many local officials agree. What they really need, they say, is help with things like shelter for migrants in winter weather, especially as temperatures are expected to drop below freezing soon.
Meanwhile, the National Guard's efforts may not be deterring migrants, as was the case with the couple from Peru. Border Patrol agents just directed them to another spot downriver, where they joined a line of migrants also seeing asylum."...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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I believe this requires the first rule of holes, “ if you find your self in a hole quit digging”. Stopping people coming in should be the first priority!
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