Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 03.06.2024
Warrant Officer Linn Allvord, the watercraft technician officer in charge of airboat training, teaches a class of Texas National Guardsmen how to operate an air boat safely on the Rio Grande River near Brownsville, TX, Feb 21, 2024. Sergeant Jake Jordan, the Surge Response Team 1 Sergeant in charge of reinforcing the border barriers in Task Force South, describes his team's mission to expand......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 02.28.2024
Sgt. Armando De Santiago, a boat team leader describes the capabilities and purpose of the boat teams that patrol the Rio Grande River at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, TX, Jan 30, 2024. The boat teams have been a vital asset to Operation Lone Star since its beginning in 2021, and they successfully deter illegal immigration into Texas on a daily basis. The team members act as a highly mobile......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 02.15.2024
1st. Lt. Hayden Starr and Staff Sgt. Travis Perry, an engineer leaders in the Surge Response Team, describes his team's mission to extend the Anti-Climb Barriers, or ACBs, on the river banks near Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb 12, 2024. The ACBs have been deployed in several strategic places along the Rio Grande, and their utility has led to a dramatic decrease in illegal immigration in......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 02.09.2024
Shelby Park had become ground zero for human smuggling, drug trafficking and illegal immigrant crossing into the US, posting staggering numbers of crossings late last year. The Guard took complete control of the park under the Governor’s emergency declaration in early January. The strategy to control the park was a multi-faceted approach including personnel, equipment and capabilities......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 02.08.2024
Shelby Park had become ground zero for human smuggling, drug trafficking and illegal immigrant crossing into the US, posting staggering numbers of crossings late last year. The Guard took complete control of the park under the Governor’s emergency declaration in early January. The strategy to control the park was a multi-faceted approach including personnel, equipment and capabilities......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 01.17.2024
The Texas Army National Guard has recently constructed a portable command post in Shelby Park, on the border of Eagle Pass, TX and Mexico, Jan. 14, 2024. The public park has consistently been a hot-spot for illegal immigration into Texas from across the river, but the National guard has now reinforced the area with concertina wire and anti-climb barriers, dramatically decreasing the activity......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 09.13.2023
Texas Army National Guard Spc. Aaron Holder describes recent illegal immigration he has witnessed despite the efforts to barricade the border crossing in El Paso, TX, Sep. 11, 2023. Holder clarified that the Texas National Guard's concertina-wire barrier is meant to deter illegal immigration and to guide immigrants to the legal ports of entry. (Texas National Guard video produced by Operation......
Video by Pvt. Steven Day | Joint Task Force Lone Star | 09.06.2023
Sgt. 1st Class Vasquez and Sgt. Guilherme responded to a crime report regarding an illegal stash house of immigrants and coordinated with the Texas Department of Public Safety and Border Patrol near Laredo, TX, Sep. 1, 2023, apprehending a total of 17 illegal immigrants. The Soldiers in Task Force Center on Operation Lone Star often encounter migrants that have been forced to live in stash......
