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AUSTIN, Texas – Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican who represents a district in TexasThe border runs more than 800 miles and warns that illegal immigration will continue unabated until Congress acts.
“Today it is Del Rio, Eagle Pass, and El Paso. Tomorrow it will be your city. It could be Chicago, New York, San Francisco or Florida. Gonzales said Saturday to Fox News Digital. “This is spreading. There is no end in view.”
There have been many more. two million migrant encountersThis fiscal year, which includes more than 203,000 in the last month.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ride an U.S. Border Patrol aircraft boat during a tour of Mexico’s border on Monday April 25, 2022 at Eagle Pass, TX.
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House Republicans reveal their plans Agenda entitled “Commitment for America”This week calls for the end of catch-and release loopholes.
Gonzales indicated that the key piece technology Congress should consider funding for Border Patrol is autonomous surveillance towers.
These towers can be built in just a few minutes and measure 33 feet high. You can find both migrantsThese are the people being smuggled into human trafficking.
Gonzales stated that every border sector wants more of these. “What you don’t hear too much about – the ‘gotaways’ – these are people that we know entered the country illegally, but we don’t know where they went. These towers could help. We would be able to identify these ‘gotaways.’”
Fox News reported in July that officials at the Border Patrol estimated there were 900 agents. More than half of a million migrantsThey have been caught on cameras and towers, but they have managed to evade agents in this fiscal year.
MIGRANT DEATHS AT BORDER EACH RECORD 782 THIS YE, CBP OFFICIALS SAY
The Biden administration has responded to criticisms about its handling of the migrant crisis by claiming it is working on legal asylum pathways reconstruction and targeting the “root causes” for migration patterns in Central American countries.
Gonzales, a Navy veteranHe was elected to Texas’s 23rd congressional District in 2020.
A banner hangs outside Robb Elementary School as a tribute to the victims of the mass shooting on Friday, June 3, that claimed 19 students and 2 teachers.
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John Cornyn, a Texas Senator, is the bill’s leader. He has also encouraged states to adopt red flag laws.
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Gonzales’ District includes Uvalde. Two teachers and 19 children were killed in the murders.An elementary school in May
Gonzales said that Uvalde was “the worst school shooting in Texas history” and that it would never happen again.
“After that horrible incident, I had countless people reach out and say, ‘Hey, Tony, we have to do something,’” he continued. “We worked real hard on that piece of legislation to make sure, one, it did not infringe on people’s constitutional rights – that’s important. [And] that it had due process – equally as important. It was, in the end, the largest investment in mental healthcare in American history.”
