2-year-old crosses border alone seeking parents in US, heartbreaking video from Texas DPS shows



The Texas Department of Public Safety shared heartbreaking videos on Sunday showing dozens of unaccompanied children who had recently crossed the southern border into the United States.

Among the group of 60 children was a 2-year-old girl who told law enforcement officers that she had journeyed alone and was hoping to be reunited with her parents in the U.S. In the video, the child clutched a piece of paper, which she extended toward the officers. Inscribed on the note was a name and phone number.

'Regardless of political views, it is unacceptable for any child to be exposed to dangerous criminal trafficking networks.'

An officer asked the child, "Did you come by yourself?"

She nodded her head in the affirmative.

"How old are you?" the officer inquired.

The child held up a couple of fingers and responded, "Two."

When asked where she was going, she replied, "With my mom and dad," who she stated were in the U.S.

The heart-wrenching video was shared by Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez, who also posted two other clips showing unaccompanied minors lined up near the southern border, presumably while awaiting processing. Going down the rows, the children shared their age, country of origin, and their intended destination in the U.S.

Olivarez posted photographs of several "special interest immigrants" who appeared to arrive with the group of children.

He wrote on X, "This morning, @TxDPS encountered a group of 211 illegal immigrants in Maverick County. Among the group were 60 unaccompanied children/minors ages 2 - 17 and 6 special interest immigrants from Mali & Angola."

"This is a stark example of the precarious journey these children make from their home country & how criminal organizations traffic these children across the southern border & further into the interior," Olivarez continued. "Regardless of political views, it is unacceptable for any child to be exposed to dangerous criminal trafficking networks."

He explained that "hundreds of thousands" of children have gone missing during their journeys to the U.S., noting that "no one [is] ensuring the safety & security of these children except for the men & women who are on the frontlines daily."

"Despite the criticism over the years, the reality is that many children are exploited & trafficked, never to be heard from again," he added.

Texas DPS has rescued more than 900 children as a part of Governor Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star, Olivarez said.

According to Customs and Border Protection data, more than 110,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the border in fiscal year 2024.

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Illegal aliens attempting to scale border wall throw rocks, sand, and water bottles at Border Patrol agents: Video



A group of illegal aliens who were recently attempting to scale the border wall dividing Texas from Mexico entered into a tense confrontation with Border Patrol agents, according to an aerial video taken by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The video, taken this week, captured the illegal immigrants while they were attempting to descend a rope ladder draped over the border wall. As law enforcement officials on the ground approached the scene, several individuals on the other side of the wall began throwing rocks and sand at the responding officers, according to Texas DPS. One individual appeared to chuck water bottles at authorities while they were attempting to make arrests, the video showed.

'The video illustrates recent behavior by these groups.'

Two illegal immigrants perched at the top of the wall entered into a back-and-forth tug of war with a Border Patrol agent over the rope ladder, the footage captured. Eventually, the two individuals gave up and retreated back into Mexico.

The Santa Teresa Station is located in the El Paso Sector. In the first seven months of fiscal year 2024, the sector has experienced more than 180,000 encounters, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

"This week, DPS provided air support to Border Patrol Agents responding to a group of illegal immigrants attempting to climb the border wall near the Santa Teresa [Port of Entry] & illegally enter the U.S. The video illustrates recent behavior by these groups in the El Paso Sector—throwing rocks, sand & water bottles at responding agents," Texas DPS wrote in a Thursday post on X.

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In March, a massive group of more than 200 illegal aliens tore down the concertina wire at the border and shoved past Texas National Guardsmen, Blaze News previously reported. The caught-on-video altercation occurred at Gate 36, a closed area of the border that is not a designated port of entry. The illegal immigrants, mostly adult males, were accused of participating in a riot.

El Paso County Judge Ruben Morales dismissed the charges, claiming he was forced to do so because the state failed to provide a transfer order to move the cases from district to county court.

A similar incident on April 22 also occurred at Gate 36. Morales dropped the charges against the illegal immigrants in that case as well, claiming that there was no evidence of "probable cause" to indicate that the individuals participated in a riot.

District Attorney Bill Hicks called for a grand jury to decide on the case after he claimed Morales refused to review additional evidence. The group of 12 El Paso citizens effectively overruled Morales' judgment, deciding to indict more than 140 illegal aliens on misdemeanor riot participation charges.

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‘Installing more barriers’: Texas SLAMS SCOTUS razor wire ruling



The Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration may continue to cut the razor wire at the Texas southern border.

But Texas isn’t giving up the fight.

“State of Texas, you know, we’re not backing down,” Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Lt. Chris Olivarez tells Glenn Beck.

“I just got back from Eagle Pass last night to kind of get a rundown of what’s happening and what’s going to take place with this whole Supreme Court decision, and nothing has changed, at least on our end, with DPS and National Guard,” he explains.

The National Guard is still installing more barriers along the river to discourage illegal border crossings.

“I love this,” Glenn responds, noting that the government is creating the narrative that people like Olivarez are “making it more difficult for them to do their job,” though he’s “not sure what their job is.”

Olivarez believes what the federal government is doing is “trying to create this divide between federal agencies and the state” and “create some type of conflict that’s nonexistent.”

Meanwhile, illegal immigrants who have possible terrorist ties are walking freely across the border.

“You can only imagine the type of people that are in our country right now,” Olivarez says, adding, “the threat is already here.”


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Texas' top cop reveals shocking new details about Uvalde police response: 'An abject failure'



The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety sharply criticized the law enforcement response to the Uvalde mass killing on Tuesday.

Not only was the response described as an "abject failure," but officials revealed shocking new details indicating that more lives could have been saved.

What are the details?

Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw disclosed while speaking to Texas lawmakers that law enforcement entered Robb Elementary School just minutes after the 18-year-old perpetrator, which meant they could have quickly neutralized him, thus saving more lives.

"There is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we’ve learned over the last two decades since the Columbine massacre," McCraw said.

"Three minutes after the suspect entered the west building, there was a sufficient number of armed officers wearing body armor to isolate, distract, and neutralize the subject," he explained. "The only thing stopping a hallway of dedicated officers from entering Room 111, and 112, was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."

During his testimony before a Texas state Senate committee, McCraw repeatedly condemned Uvalde school district police Chief Pete Arredondo, the on-scene commander who decided not to immediately engage the gunman.

Arredondo has said he gave that order because officers could not enter the classroom containing the gunman because the door was locked. But McCraw said Tuesday that is not true. In fact, McCraw said the door was never locked, the door did not lock from the inside, and there is no evidence that officers attempted to open the door.

McCraw said the response sent the law enforcement "profession back a decade."

"The officers had weapons; the children had none," McCraw said. "The officers had body armor; the children had none. The officers had training; the subject had none. One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds. That’s how long children waited, and the teachers waited, in Room 111 to be rescued.”

In the end, 19 children and two teachers lost their lives.

Multiple departments are investigating the response to Uvalde, including the Justice Department, Texas DPS, and Texas lawmakers.

Arredondo is facing calls to resign, but he remains the police chief of the Uvalde school district police agency.

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Police spokesman shocks with excuse for why police waited so long to engage Uvalde killer: 'They could have been shot'



Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez shocked the nation Thursday when he explained why police officers were reluctant to immediately enter Robb Elementary School and engage the teenage gunman who was inside slaughtering children and teachers.

During an interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Olivarez about the protocol for engaging an active shooter, which apparently was not followed in Uvalde.

"Don't current best practices, lieutenant, call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible regardless of how many officers are actually on site?" Blitzer asked.

Olivarez's response understandably raised eyebrows, because he emphasized that the situation was dangerous for responding police officers.

"Correct," Olivarez responded. "The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing. You want to preserve life."

"But also one thing that, of course, the American people need to understand is that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is," he continued. "They are hearing gunshots, they are receiving gunshots. At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where this suspect was at, they could have been shot — they could have been killed. And at that point, that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside that school."

"So they were able to contain that gunman inside that classroom so that he was not able to go to any other portions of the school to commit any other killings," Olivarez added.

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According to Olivarez, three police officers initially entered the building through the same entrance as the gunman, while four officers made entry through a separate doorway. Upon entering, the officers were "taking gunfire" and requested backup.

However, it was only "at that time" that the Border Patrol tactical officer who is credited with neutralizing the gunman arrived on the scene and entered the classroom where the gunman had barricaded himself.

Still, significant questions remain unanswered, and outrage is mounting over what appears to be a weak law enforcement response.

The gunman was apparently in the school for up to an hour before police engaged him, he entered the school unobstructed, and he even fired shots outside the school building for 12 minutes before entering, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Meanwhile, viral video shows how concerned parents who rushed to the school angrily pleaded with police to enter the school building, stop the gunman, and save their children and other innocent lives inside. Instead, at least one parent was detained and others were subdued by police, the Journal reported.

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