In Texas, resentment builds as border crackdown ensnares local drivers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas — The web of state highway troopers that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has woven at the border has ensnared local drivers pulled over by officers searching for smugglers and people who've slipped across the border.

Abbott’s election-year attempt to thwart illegal immigration, called Operation Lone Star, has vexed some residents in small towns and counties where the number of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers has increased along with citations of drivers.

In Kinney County, where Brackettville is the county seat, citations more than quadrupled, from 1,400 in 2019-2020 to more than 6,800 in 2021-2022, more than in any other Texas county. The number of officers working in this county of 3,674 nearly tripled, from 14 to 41, an NBC News analysis of Texas DPS data shows.

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The stops, however, are increasingly seen by some residents as targeted at Latinos or at people who fit a stereotype. Many officers are from other parts of the state with smaller Latino populations, although there are Hispanic troopers in Operation Lone Star.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-texas-resentment-builds-as-border-crackdown-ensnares-local-drivers/ar-AA10SZ28

"They's brown so they must be illegal."

[Chainfire]

1. Your papers please.

[peppertree]

7. Und mach schnell!!

[tanyev]

2. Kinney County went for Greg Abbot 890 votes over Lupe Valdez 290 in 2018.

How’s that working out?

[KS Toronado]

4. Those numbers will probably reverse this election.

[crickets]

3. Sounds like this is backfiring on him. Good. nt

[Initech]

5. This is exactly what happens when too much Fox News rots your brain.

[Traildogbob]

6. Fox News "IS"

A brain eating amoeba. It dwells in anal cavities and will into through the ear canal if your head stays up an ass for any period of time.

[Initech]

13. Certainly true!

[mn9driver]

8. Had this same experience in southern California in the 1980's

My wife had dark hair and complexion and driving in the border areas near El Centro, we would sometimes be pulled over by border patrol or state police and asked where we were born. Sometimes they would ask her if she was traveling with me willingly.

Then they would let us go. Very weird

[pwb]

9. But trump fixed the border?

Mexico built the wall for him and everything.

[The Jungle 1]

10. The stupidity is stunning.

As climate change gets worse, crops and economies will fail.
What the f-_- do think is going to happen.
Well those people aren't real Christians like us!!!!!!

[AllaN01Bear]

11. driving whilst brown or black.

[malaise]

12. Good

He’s getting folks angry- go Beto