Texas DPS Confirms Breitbart Story on Falfurrias Search and Rescue Operation

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed a report from Breitbart Texas that members of the Texas State Guard and DPS have established special search teams to assist the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office in Falfurrias. The teams will be searching for human remains of illegal immigrants who died while attempting to bypass the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint located about 13 miles south of Falfurrias. The missions began this week and will continue through the weekend. Breitbart Texas has been providing extensive coverage of Brooks County’s problems in dealing both with the cost of the burials and the impact of the illegal immigrants hiking through the ranch lands in the county. Over 50 bodies have been found so far this year, however, officials readily admit they only find a small portion of the number of people they believe have died in these fields. DPS officials were quick to point out in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas that this operation is not part of the Operation Strong Safety deployment of DPS troopers and Texas National Guard members currently underway in a section of the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Texas-Mexico border. However, the officials admitted the bodies and remains they are searching are “primarily suspected to be individuals who were smuggled and trafficked into the county by the Mexican cartels and criminal operatives exploiting security gaps along the Texas-Mexico border.”...more