NBC 5 sent a team to get a first-hand look at what is happening on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
WHAT ARE THE PREPARATIONS IN TEXAS?
"Operation Mirror" is underway as part of the larger"Operation Lone Star" to cut down on migrants attempting to cross illegally into the country.Members of the military transported shipments of razor wire to the border in anticipation of a Title 42 decision, according to Estrada.Barbed wire sits along the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas.
“No, Title 42 should not be lifted,” he said. “We don’t have another protective layer here and we are vulnerable.”Saenz says he questions whether the federal government is really prepared to end the policy and face a potential flood of migrants along the border.“There’s got to be another way and I’m proposing maybe it’s done remotely from their countries of origin or next to it, a safe zone.”
That surge, Saenz says, pulled resources from other border communities to Del Rio leaving them vulnerable to drug traffickers.April saw a 22-year high number of encounters at the southern border, according to federal data, more than 234,000 undocumented migrants.Laredo registered 12,540 encounters at the border, fewer than cities like McAllen and Del Rio. The reason for this, authorities say, is that migrants typically avoid Nuevo Laredo out of fear of cartels that dominate the region.
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