Texas Gov. Abbott to deploy tank-like vehicles against migrant ‘invasion’

Gov. Greg Abbott cited President Biden's open-border insurance policies as the explanation for the crackdown.
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The Texas Nationwide Guard is ready to deploy 10 tank-like armored personnel carriers alongside the state’s border with Mexico — days after Gov. Greg Abbott declared that record-breaking ranges of unlawful immigration quantity to an “invasion by the Mexican drug cartels.”

The M113 armored personnel service autos, which experience on tank-style treads quite than wheels to barter tough terrain, might be despatched to the border as a part of the Republican governor’s Operation Lone Star, based on paperwork obtained by the Texas Tribune and the Military Occasions.

The bulletproof, explosion-resistant troop carriers — which reportedly value $300,000 when new — might be outfitted with weaponry together with heavy machine weapons, grenade launchers, and anti-tank missiles, the report famous. The US and its European allies have despatched a number of hundred M113s to Ukraine in latest months to be used in its struggle in opposition to Russia.

The carriers might be outfitted with weapons together with heavy machine weapons, grenade launchers, and anti-tank missiles.

US Military photograph by Workers Sgt. Elizabeth Smith

The carriers, together with stepped-up “plane flights and safety efforts” alongside the border, “are half of a bigger technique to make use of each accessible software to struggle again in opposition to the record-breaking degree of unlawful immigration,” the Texas Navy Division stated Friday.

On Wednesday, Abbott slammed President Biden in a letter that blamed his “open-border insurance policies” for the continuing “invasion” of migrants on the southern border — and warned that Texas will “invoke our constitutional authority to defend ourselves.”