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South Texas police chief pushes for increased border patrol: 'They can obviously use more help’
The southern border crisis has had reverberating effects on his city’s safety and authorities need more help, the Del Rio, Texas chief of police said in an interview.
“One of the things that impacts us the most is human smuggling that comes through here; they have a disregard for life it seems like as they come through,” police chief Frank Ramirez told Fox News Digital.
Ramirez said drivers involved in human smuggling operations often drive very “recklessly”, causing safety concerns for the town.
Ramirez said he joined around the same time of the Haitian migrant surge that occurred in Del Rio in September 2021. Ramirez said since then, they have had “influxes like that,” but believes Customs and Border Patrol is better prepared and working with law enforcement to handle influxes.
Del Rio, Texas Chief of Police Frank Ramirez calls for more border patrol agents to deal with migrant crossings. (Fox News)
“The great part is that we work with DPS, and we have a great relationship with Border Patrol, and we work as one,” Ramirez said.
Ramirez added, “Border Patrol, I know, they’re doing the best they can with the people they have, but, they can obviously use more help.”
Ramirez said it would greatly help their community for Border Patrol to have more manpower.
“They (Border Patrol) do have some pretty good technology, but with the processing, it takes so long to process and … it takes a lot of their agents. And I know that that’s something that they’re really wanting.”
“For the most part, just more manpower for the Border Patrol, I think, would be one of the major things that would help over here,” he added.
Ramirez believes that a lot of people coming across the border are coming for a “better way of life” but that there is also a “bad element” for some of the people crossing as well.
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Texas residents who live along the southern border spoke with Fox News Digital about how the ongoing border crisis has directly affected their lives.
“Personally, I think that we’re going to see something similar to a 9/11 at some point in the future. Biden opened the door, folks,” said Paul Henrich, a rancher in Quemado, Texas.
This comes as 87% of voters say the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is an emergency (44%) or a major problem (43%). That’s an increase since February, when about 8 in 10 felt it was an emergency (41%) or major problem (37%), according to the latest Fox News national survey.
Fox News Digital also discovered an old, abandoned bus that was filled to the brim with the clothes of men, women and children. Other clothing was found in the brush between various houses.
This photo shows an abandoned bus in Del Rio, Texas filled with the clothing of men, women and children. (Fox News)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office stated in June that crossings along the Mexico-Texas border have decreased by 74% since implementing Operation Lone Star beginning in 2021.
Abbott launched Operation Lone Star to surge resources and law enforcement to the border. As part of that operation, he set up a buoy border barrier in the Rio Grande River, which sparked a lawsuit from the federal government.
Separately, the Biden administration has sued Texas over a recently signed anti-illegal immigration law that allows state and local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants. The administration says it interferes with the federal government’s authority and frustrates U.S. immigration operations and proceedings, in addition to hurting relations with foreign governments.
“Texas is holding the line at our southern border with miles of additional razor wire and anti-climb barriers to deter and repel the record-high levels of illegal immigration invited by President Biden’s reckless open border policies. Instead of enforcing federal immigration laws, the Biden administration allows unfettered access for Mexican cartels to smuggle people into our country,” Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze told Fox News in January.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, Texas border encounters dropped in June of this year, and in July there were 46,250 encounters; this number does not include any gotaways.
Fiscal year 2023 broke the record for encounters with over 2.4 million, while December had nearly 250,000 encounters in a single month.
At the Democratic National Convention, Harris said she would sign the bipartisan Senate border bill that Trump did not support and which many conservatives have derided as ineffective. The bill would require hundreds of millions of unspent funds to be used on the border wall. However, according to Harris’ advisers, the bill does not provide additional funding for the border wall.
Elizabeth Heckman and Nikolas Lanum reported from Texas.
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Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday evening in Manhattan after being indicted by a grand jury, according to multiple reports.
According to reporting by the New York Times, the charges against the 54-year-old were not entirely clear, but the rapper, producer and entrepreneur has been embroiled in in a federal investigation and sexual assault lawsuits.
Agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security raided a mansion in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills in March, along with another one of his homes in Miami.
Combs’ attorney Marc Agnifilo told TMZ that they were disappointed with “what we believe is the unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
“He is an imperfect person but is not a criminal,” his lawyer told TMZ. “To his credit Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for additional details.
The United States has led the world in science and innovation for most of its history, and that claim has been backed up by science.
To cite one notable testament of leadership in global science: The U.S. boasts 411 winners of Nobel Prizes in physics and medicine.
The number of Americans among Nobel Prize honorees dwarfs the U.K., which is the No. 2 nation on the list with 137 winners, and is more than the next four nations combined.
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The U.S. has led the world in advances in atomic and nuclear power, space travel and the digital economy.
A cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex head that was found in Montana and excavated by noted dino-hunter Jack Horner (pictured left). A boy (pictured right) is seen exploring a Mercury space capsule at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images; Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The nation also boasts one of the world’s richest repositories of dinosaur fossils.
Here’s a look at five family-friendly tourist landmarks to visit as you learn more about American science.
Alabama – U.S. Space & Rocket Center
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama, 2010. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
The family-friendly showcase of American exploratory power boasts perhaps the world’s largest display of rocketry and memorabilia from various NASA programs.
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Among the highlights at the Huntsville museum: the Apollo 11 virtual reality experience, which puts visitors inside the mission that first put men on the moon; and summertime “astronaut chats” with the nation’s most celebrated space explorers.
Michigan – Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
The “Sweepstakes” car, part of the “Driven To Win” exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (Wes Duenkel/The Henry Ford via AP)
Few did more to shape modern America than Henry Ford. The Museum of American Innovation is a fitting tribute to that impact — highlighted by a heavy dose of our country’s national history. The Henry Ford, as it’s often known, is a collection of several sites sprawling across 250 acres.
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The flagship museum includes jaw-dropping Americana memorabilia, such as the Rosa Parks bus, George Washington’s camp bed and the limousine in which President Kennedy was assassinated, among many other exhibits and events.
Montana – Museum of the Rockies
A replica of the 66-million-year-old creature, dubbed the “Nation’s T. rex,” which was found by ranchers Kathy and Tom Wankel, stands outside the Museum of the Rockies. (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Long before humans inhabited North America, the land was ruled by dinosaurs, notably the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. Skeletons of the giant “king of the lizards” were first found in the American West.
The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman offers one of the world’s greatest collections of North American dinosaur fossils — not just the T.rex but also the horned Triceratops and a nearly complete skeleton of an Allosaurus, a predecessor of the lizard king.
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The museum also includes exhibits dedicated to native peoples of the area and to the homesteaders who settled Montana in the 19th century.
New Mexico – White Sands National Park
Ripple patterns are captured in White Sands National Park, New Mexico. (Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))
This geological oddity is an American wonder for its natural beauty and sobering role in the history of modern warfare.
It was on this site in July 1945 that American scientists, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, first unleashed the power of the atomic bomb, a victory of American ingenuity and industrial power amid World War II.
The achievement also had lingering ramifications for mankind. The Trinity test at White Sands was a prelude to the atomic attacks the following month on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that ended World War II.
White Sands National Park includes 275 square miles of glistening gypsum sand — the largest dunefield of its kind on Earth — surrounded by the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range.
The park today offers spectacular vistas and touring by automobile, hiking, biking or pack animals. It still closes for missile testing.
Texas – Space Center Houston
Apollo 13 – NASA, 1970. Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas: Three of the four Apollo 13 flight directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module Odyssey, 17 April 1970. Artist NASA. (Photo by Heritage Space/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
“Houston, we have a problem.”
The phrase entered the American lexicon in 1970 when astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 mission reported a potential disaster to flight control at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The more recent addition, Space Center Houston, opened in 1992. It is considered the world’s most prestigious aerospace museum and serves as the visitors’ center to the famed NASA complex. It has a spectacular collection of rocketry and artifacts.
Among the treasures: the space capsules flown and returned to Earth by the Mercury 9, Gemini 5 and Apollo 17 missions, the latter of which in 1972 carried astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, the last two men to walk on the moon.
The museum also showcases a collection of moon rocks and space suits.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale station announced it will be closed Monday in honor of fallen Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer.
“Today, September 16, 2024, marks the one year anniversary of our fallen brother, Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer’s passing,” the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station posted on Instagram.
In honor of Clinkunbroomer, the Sheriff’s Station closed its lobby doors so its personnel could stand watch in front of the station.
“We will not be open to provide our residents with vehicle/repo releases, copies of reports or other inquiries until 12:01 AM on September 17, 2024,” the post read.
Clinkunbroomer was ambushed and fatally shot one year ago while sitting at a red light in his patrol vehicle.
The shooting was described as “cowardly and senseless” by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.
The man accused in the shooting has been charged with murder.
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