(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Five years into Texas’ border security mission Operation Lone Star, law enforcement efforts in South Texas have become so successful that transnational criminal organizations are moving stolen vehicles and equipment south out of Texas to Mexico and using shipping containers to transport people across the Gulf of America to other states, OLS officials said.
Although southwest illegal border crossings have dropped by 95% in the first year of the Trump administration, OLS 2.0 is ongoing, with law enforcement targeting transnational crime. And in Jackson County, roughly two hours south of Houston, they’re getting caught.
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