Texas is gonna Texas. 😤
Texas officials are celebrating the seizure of an island near the United States-Mexico border described as a "safe haven" for cartel drugs and weapons. …
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said Wednesday on Fox Business Network's Mornings With Maria Bartiromo that she recently returned from Fronton Island, described as being 'on the most violent part of the border.'
The island, situated across a stretch of land in the Rio Grande in Texas' Starr County, was secured by the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety last November. It was a site of automatic gunfire and continuous violence, she said.
Here's Fronton Island in relation to both the U.S. and Mexico:
How I imagine the good men of Texas clear river islands to protect us from an invasion:
The island's recent history is fraught with cartel politics:
In 2023, Fronton Island became a hotspot of human trafficking and drug smuggling. On September 7, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham determined that the land was state property and granted the Texas Ranger Division permission to patrol the island as part of Operation Lone Star. … Under the direction of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Ranger Division and Texas Army National Guard occupied Fronton Island on October 2, 2023, and began clearing its vegetation ahead of patrols.
The cartels have been active at the border for a long while now. It's not pretty.
At Fronton Island, meanwhile, border officials obviously took seriously the need to ensure the cartel couldn't hide there:
In all, the Texas National Guard reportedly worked to clear "170 plus acres of heavy brush" in order to effect "excellent visibility of the island down to the Rio Grande River."
All of that work appears to have been put to good use: One border official says that "there are no more weapons caches and people coming across [the border]."
Imagine if we had, oh, a federal government tasked with employing these common sense tactics??
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