State troopers deployed to the border by Gov. Greg Abbott are being credited for doing the federal government's job and stopping thousands more migrants in Mexico from illegally crossing into the United States after well over 15,000 made it through here late last week.
A swarm of Texas Department of Public Safety officers, known as troopers, descended on the riverbank Saturday afternoon as a show of force to deter people in Mexico from wading across the Rio Grande.
The impact DPS's arrival has had on Border Patrol agents has been significant.
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ASKS PENTAGON TO SEND MILITARY TO BORDER. Eric Gay/AP. Jon Anfinsen, a Border Patrol agent who is president of the national union's Del Rio chapter, said it was "Great" seeing the state police officers pull in and hold the line because they regained control of the land that had fallen out of the federal government's control.
"DPS has thankfully come out here and helped us out dramatically. We literally could not control this or have even some semblance of control without DPS, National Guard, all the other local stakeholders that are out here."
Brandon Judd, a Border Patrol agent who is the national union president of the National Border Patrol Council, estimated that troopers outnumber federal agents by 3 to 1.
Before troopers arrived on the scene Saturday, many migrants had been crossing back to Mexico to buy food, water, and supplies and then bring them back to the U.S. while they awaited being transported to a processing station.
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