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 brought to bear by Joint Task Force Lone Star
Texas National Guard Soldiers, assigned to Task Force West, are holding the line along the Texas and Mexico border. Illegal migrant turn backs into Mexico have been increasing in the past weeks.
Texas National Guard command and staff personnel, assigned to Joint Task Force Lone Star, conducted the first of several partner state operational in-briefs across the south Texas border region this week. The state National Guards included Florida, Missouri and Tennessee.
Soldiers of the Texas National Guard are putting into action state of the art optical equipment to monitor illegal border crossings and criminal activity in Shelby Park.
Soldiers of the Texas State and National Guard are putting into action a conceptual idea to stop illegal immigrants from climbing over the metal shipping containers along the riverbank of the Rio Grande River in the community area of Shelby Park.
EAGLE PASS, Texas -- Texas Army National Guard Soldiers, assigned to Joint Task Force Operation Lone Star, continued to reinforce barriers and obstacles emplaced along the Rio Grande River this week.
EAGLE PASS, Texas— Soldiers of the Texas State and National Guard are putting into action a conceptual idea to stop illegal immigrants from climbing over the metal shipping containers along the riverbank of the Rio Grande River in the community area of Shelby Park.
EAGLE PASS, Texas— Soldiers of the Texas National Guard are putting into action state of the art optical equipment to monitor illegal border crossings and criminal activity in Shelby Park.
