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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/texas-working-to-block-cartels-   
   workarounds-after-trump-policies-shut-down-border/   
      
   Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has ordered the state’s General   
   Land Office to inspect state-owned properties along the southern U.S.   
   border, focusing on vulnerable zones such as Hudspeth County, for signs of   
   cartel-built tunnels.   
      
   Southern border encounters went from a daily average of 7,052 under former   
   President Joe Biden to 910 under President Donald Trump as of October 8,   
   forcing cartels to innovate in a game of trafficking leapfrog to avoid   
   heightened Trump-imposed enforcement above ground.   
      
   “We’ve gotten the message that they are starting to think about tunneling,   
   and so there’s some new technology on the front. We’re partnering up with   
   local officials and federal officials, and we’ll do everything we can for   
   complete operational control of our border and to keep our communities   
   safe and prosperous for our kids,” Buckingham told Just The News.   
      
   The directive follows a string of tunnel discoveries in San Diego and El   
   Paso, Texas, within the past year, as smuggling organizations increasingly   
   turn to subterranean routes.   
      
   GLO teams will incorporate drone and aerial surveillance into regular land   
   checks to spot possible entry points or excavation evidence, while working   
   closely with federal partners to target high-priority parcels.   
      
   “They are kind of like cockroaches that run to the corners and hide in the   
   crevices,” Buckingham also said. “They’re going to continue to bring   
   ingenuity to their craft. You can’t expect that you’re going to negatively   
   impact their business and then not to try and find another way.”   
      
   The effort dovetails with a new federal initiative: a $100 million   
   commitment from Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection for   
   cutting-edge detection equipment, alongside the Trump administration’s   
   classification of Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, which expands   
   enforcement powers.   
      
   The announcement cites that the tunnel survey extends earlier GLO   
   operations, including the 2023 assertion of state ownership over Fronton   
   Island in Starr County – enabling Operation Flat Top to remove dense brush   
   and disrupt criminal activity – and the 2024 purchase of a 1,402-acre Rio   
   Grande ranch, where 1.5 miles of border wall were finished by early 2025.   
   Last November, Buckingham made the ranch available to the incoming Trump   
   administration for use as deportation hubs and operational staging sites.   
      
   In June, U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered a tunnel system stretching   
   more than 1,000 feet into the interior of the United States from Mexico at   
   the border with Southern California. Though incomplete, the drug smuggling   
   tunnel was intended to be a secret passage for Mexican drug cartels to   
   move product north.   
      
   Mexican cartel tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border first gained   
   prominence in the early 1990s, with the discovery of a sophisticated   
   1,400-foot passage built by the Sinaloa Cartel under the Otay Mesa area   
   near San Diego, used primarily for drug smuggling.   
      
   Over the decades, the tunnels evolved in complexity, incorporating   
   ventilation systems, rail tracks, and electricity, as evidenced by a   
   4,300-foot tunnel uncovered in 2020 connecting Tijuana to San Diego, which   
   facilitated both narcotics and human trafficking.   
      
   By the 2010s and 2020s, U.S. authorities had detected over 180 such   
   tunnels since 1990, many operated by groups like the Jalisco New   
   Generation Cartel, highlighting a multifaceted role in smuggling massive   
   quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and illegal aliens across the   
   border.   
      
      
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