In recent weeks, the clear failure of President Biden to secure the border has become apparent. This week alone over a two-day period, Customs and Border Patrol reported over 22,000 encounters at the Southern border. It has become a crisis that no Democrat wants to acknowledge. Republicans at least made their effort, blocking a new, silly Ukraine aid package, demanding more border security.
But the effects of the border range beyond just illegal crossings and smuggled in fentanyl. There is a much more unclear, unseen problem happening. Texas ranchers are seeing more smugglers crash cars on their property, and in some cases, have even found dead immigrants on their land.
Breitbart's Bob Price says they destroy fences on the property, allowing cattle to roam free. But that is just the start.
"You have the migrants themselves who steal property from the ranchers, destroy cattle water tanks...a lot of damage to the ranches themselves," he says.
It is not just some small mom and pop ranch seeing these issues. The popular, sprawling King Ranch has seen the same issues. If they are seeing it, then that is a major problem.
So, why do you not hear about this problem? Why do you not see uproar from these border ranchers? The answer is simple.
"Where they are located...they are right across from these dangerous cartels...you can imagine they are in fear for their safety if they go make a public spectacle," he says.
Those cartels like making examples of people who go against the grain. There have been plenty of stories in the past of tourists being dismembered and left in garbage bags on main city streets in Laredo.
The Del Rio sector has become one of the most heavily trafficked areas along the entire US-Mexico border. As mentioned above, that has not stopped, and will not anytime soon. But there is more than just a human or family impact. Yes indeed, this even stretches into being an economic issue.
"The cost to the ranchers gets passed on at some point into the cost of doing business...which raises the cost of beef," he says. "They are restricted in how much they can recoup too."
Price says the closing of ports of entry too hurts the economy of the small towns at the border, where so many people cross to buy Christmas presents.
The floodgates have been opened, however, furthering a massive crisis. Hopefully that will be the final straw to make the unseen become seen.
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