The rounds were ploughing into the car every time he moved. My armour and helmet almost certainly saved me.īut Richie was still inside the car. I lost my balance and fell to the bottom, landing like a sack of potatoes, cutting my face. Richie says I then got out of the car and stood up, before jogging to the edge of the embankment and then started running. I managed to put my helmet on, and was about to attempt my escape, when I stopped and reached back into a shelf in the door and retrieved my phones and my press card, unbelievably. "I've been hit!" I shouted.īut what amazed me was that it didn't hurt that bad. I do recall wondering if my death was going to be painful.Īnd then I was hit in the lower back. Richie was shouting to me, but I can't really remember much. Learn more.Image: Producer Dominique Van Heerden runs for cover Tickets are on sale now for this multi-day celebration of big, bold ideas about politics, public policy and the day’s news, curated by The Texas Tribune’s award-winning journalists. 20-25 at the 2021 Texas Tribune Festival. The immigrants sent to Briscoe had all been arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass.Ībbott has also pledged to build a state-funded border wall to slow migration through Texas’ southern border. Arrests started last week, and as of Monday, 30 immigrant arrestees were held at the Briscoe Unit in Dilley, a state prison that is being converted into a jail to hold arrested immigrants. In June, Abbott declared an increase in illegal immigration through Texas a state disaster and ordered DPS to start arresting migrants on state offenses and holding them in state jails. Abbott has sent Department of Public Safety troopers to border towns experiencing an increase in migrant crossings and has pledged to deliver more help to local law enforcement agencies. Local officials in some Texas counties say the increase in migrants trying to enter the country has stretched their scarce resources, and a presence of drug and human smugglers has overwhelmed their small law enforcement agencies. That number was the highest of the year, beating the previous high of 180,641 set in May. Border authorities have stopped hundreds of thousands of migrants trying to cross into the United States through its southwestern border, including 188,829 attempted crossings in June. The move is the latest in Abbott’s efforts to control what he has declared a disaster in several border counties, which he says has been brought on by the Biden administration’s lax immigration enforcement. “I hereby order that the Texas National Guard assist DPS in enforcing Texas law by arresting lawbreakers at the border.” “To respond to this disaster and secure the rule of law at our Southern border, more manpower is needed - in addition to the troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and soldiers from the Texas National Guard I have already deployed there - and DPS needs help in arresting those who are violating state law,” Abbott said in a letter to Major Gen. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ramped up his latest efforts to stem the increase of migrants coming into Texas, ordering the National Guard to assist law enforcement in arresting migrants at the border who break state laws. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
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