This happened on the outskirts of Brackettville, Texas, which is located halfway between Uvalde and the Del Rio border crossing.
It’s a shooting you probably haven’t heard of, in part, thankfully, because no one was hurt.
A U. S. Border Patrol agent He was on a highway outside Brackettville when he saw a Chevrolet Suburban heading north. This just before 10:00 a. m. on January 3, 2021.
The USBP agent activated his ceiling lamps to initiate a vehicle prevention in the SUV to conduct an immigration inspection,” said a thief complaint filed in U. S. District Court. U. S. For the Western District of Texas.
“A full-speed chase ensued when the SUV attempted to flee from USBP agents,” according to the complaint. “During the chase, several shots were fired at USBP officers seeking to stop the vehicle. The vehicle traveled at a maximum speed, above one hundred miles per hour for about twenty-eight minutes before law enforcement could effectively deploy the barbed strips, immobilizing the vehicle. »
“USBP agents apprehended six (6) Honduran citizens who were illegally in the United States without documentation,” the complaint alleges.
The driving force of the vehicle also illegally in the United States. According to the complaint, “Sergio Treviño, a Mexican citizen and illegal alien, who first fled the van, but was later apprehended. “
“Sergio Treviño admitted his involvement in the failure of the alien smuggling event by claiming that he hired through a friend in Houston, Texas, to send additional AI to the United States knowingly and voluntarily,” the complaint alleges. “Trevino said he was going to be paid about $2,000. 00 for the shipment of the AIs.
“Trevino also admitted to having the firearm and firing several shots from the moving vehicle at law enforcement officers while officers were attempting to conduct the immigration inspection,” the complaint alleges.
On June 15, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service issued a statement on the solution of the Treviño case.
“A Mexican national has been sentenced to more than 17 years in a federal felony for shooting two U. S. Border Patrol officers near Brackettville,” ICE said.
“On June 10, Sergio Treviño, 35, was sentenced to 214 months in prison,” he added. “On March 31, 2021, Treviño pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a federal agent and one count of firearm in a violent Treviño was sentenced to 94 months in the crime of assault and 120 months on the charge of use of firearm, both sentences being executed consecutively. “
Ashley Hoff, U. S. Representative The U. S. Department of Homeland Security for the Western District of Texas summarized the situation.
“Sergio Treviño not only endangered the lives of U. S. Border Patrol agents. “The U. S. was looking to capture him, but also the lives of the undocumented who were not citizens and everyone who was traveling on the road that day,” he said.
“Fortunately,” he said, “no one was seriously injured by his senseless and harmful actions. “
A similar expression of relief is due to the deeply tragic events that soon took place in the same part of Texas for the same reason: an insecure border.
Less than two weeks after U. S. Attorney Hoff released her to resolve the Brackettville incident, San Antonio police officers called Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to search the crime scene.
“San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) officials notified HSI special agents when they arrived at the semi-truck location in southwest San Antonio after receiving 911 calls from the citizens involved,” a statement said via ICE. several Americans inside the semi-trailer, on the floor and in nearby brush, many of whom have died and some are incapacitated. “
“HSI showed that another 48 people at the scene had died,” the U. S. District Attorney’s Office said two days later. U. S. For the Western District of Texas.
“Of those 22 were Mexican citizens, seven Guatemalan citizens, two Honduran citizens and 17 of unknown origin but suspected of being undocumented citizens,” the U. S. attorney said.
“HSI showed the undocumented prestige of the deceased a cellular fingerprint device,” the federal prosecutor said. “Sixteen of the other 64 undocumented people were taken to local hospitals for medical evaluation. Five died in hospital. “
The next day, the Houston Chronicle published an article headlined: “Miners are migrating in record numbers.
“The 4 young men who were allegedly hospitalized after being discovered Monday in a crowded and overheated semi-trailer in San Antonio are among the growing number of young people and teens undertaking the dangerous adventure to the United States,” the Chronicle reported.
“Bexar County officials also told the media that some of the other 53 people who died as a result of the incident could possibly be under the age of 18,” the newspaper said.
“The number of unaccompanied youth and teens apprehended at the border has increased 17-fold since 2008, according to new Syracuse University research on U. S. Customs and Border Protection data,” the Chronicle reported.
In fact, Syracuse’s research shows that in fiscal year 2008, the border patrol apprehended 8,081 unaccompanied youth (age 17 and younger). That number rose to 76,136 in fiscal year 2019, before the COVID pandemic hit. It then fell to 19,657 in fiscal year 2020, amid the pandemic and President Donald Trump’s final full year in office.
In fiscal year 2021, when President Joe Biden took office, it rose to 140,230, a year-on-year cumulative of more than six hundred percent.
Eight years ago, this column argued that our insecure southern border resembled an unfenced pool: a deadly danger to those who would likely cross illegally and an ethical danger to those who refused to protect it.
In June, a 15-year-old Guatemalan boy was discovered dead in the Rio Grande Valley. “He was considered lost on his way north and most likely died from exposure in the hot, dry scrub area of South Texas,” the Associated Said. Prensa reported at the time.
This June, another 53 people were trapped in a semi-trailer.
How they allegedly gave their weapons to the Highland Park shooter is beyond ridiculous.