America's Border War Has Begun: TODD BENSMAN's dramatic eyewitness report on Texas' invasion of a Mexican cartel island crawling with gang members and ringed with sniper nests... and it's all happening INSIDE the U.S.
In the early dawn's orange glow, a
Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.
They're preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.
Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders' instructions.
'Keep a close eye on those structures up there that have height advantage on us,' he warns.
'In case we do get engaged and someone is shot' medical evacuation plans are in place and there are blood bags if the wounded need a transfusion, he assures them.
This may seem like a scene from a far-flung war zone.
But it's just a glimpse of the hot war on America's southern border – a direct consequence of an out-of-control crisis that has resulted in nearly five million illegal migrants entering the United States since President
Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
In the early dawn's orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.
(Above) Suspected cartel soldier captured by surveillance camera crossing from Mexico into Fronton, Texas in August 2023
'AN ISLAND OF DEATH'
I embedded with a Texas state mission to retake an island INSIDE of America that has fallen under the control of ultra-violent criminal organizations.
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