Texas Border Business
Last week, we saw the release of alarming official numbers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). According to their data, we expect to have well over 2 million illegal crossings this fiscal year. Representing a border community, being a wife to a CBP officer and mother of 4 children, this report was alarming. It confirms the magnitude of the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis at our border. As a member of the Homeland Security Committee, and to better understand the issue, Flores visited the CBP RGV Sector to speak to those on the frontlines. After receiving a briefing, she and her team toured the sector and learned more about the everyday operations and challenges facing our brave CBP men and women.
This visit furthered her conviction that her first bill in Congress, the bipartisan ‘Advanced Border Coordination Act‘, to support law enforcement officials and enhance inter-agency communications, meets the current field needs and will hinder cartels and human drug traffickers from further expanding their grip on our southern border. Words cannot describe the pain she felt when she saw a pregnant 12-year-old girl who these monsters had sexually abused. Seeing such on strengthens her resolve to see this humanitarian and security crisis stopped once and for all.
