WESLACO, TX - On Friday, February 16th, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed that a routine traffic stop lead to the seizure of $1.2 million worth of cocaine.
According to reports, at 8:30 a.m., a DPS trooper stopped a gray Nissan Frontier on 10th Street, south of Beal Street in McAllen for a traffic violation. The driver, identified as 44-year-old Williams Garcia-Granados was accompanied by a passenger, 17-year-old Williams Garcia-Redondo.
While searching the vehicle, the DPS trooper found 48 plastic bundles containing cocaine. According to Lt. Chris Olivarez, the spokesperson of Texas DPS in Southwest Texas, over 133 pounds of cocaine was seized by the trooper. The estimated street value of the concealed drugs is $1.2 million. Both individuals were placed under arrest and have been charged with manufacturing/delivering a controlled substance, which is a first-degree felony in the state of Texas.
Both men were then transported to the Hidalgo County Jail where they were booked. According to authorities, both men were in the country illegally from Reynosa; a city in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
This is one of many instances where authorities on the southern border are encountering illegal immigrants entering the United States with drugs. The open border policies set by the Biden administration allow cartels and smugglers to take advantage and easily transport mass amounts of harmful drugs across the southern border.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit, back in December 2023, Border Patrol officers found $10 million worth of methamphetamine and cocaine in vats of jalapeno paste. During that incident, a 28-year-old was arrested for transporting the drugs at the southern border in Otay Mesa, California.
The Otay Mesa Cargo Facility encountered the driver in a commercial tractor-trailer. The driver did have a valid border crossing card, but was still referred to a secondary area where the Border Patrol's K9 unit alerted officers to the contents inside of the vats. There were over 300 packages inside of the truck containing over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamines and over 500 pounds of cocaine.
Although the Biden administration is not as tough on the crisis at the southern border as critics woul like, parts of Texas have seen results since Governor Greg Abbott has secured portions of the border. In Eagle Pass, there has been a 76 percent decrease in immigrants illegally crossing the border.
Eagle Pass has been known to be one of the busiest ports for illegal border crossings, but since Texas locked it down, they have seen these numbers drastically drop. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in December 2023, there were over 71,000 apprehensions and by January 2024, those numbers dropped to just over 16,700.
Other parts of the southern border are not seeing results like this. In the last week of January, CBP reported that over 32,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended, with over 71 percent of them in Arizona and California. The current estimate is that 11 million illegal immigrants have flooded into the United States over the last three years.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to blame the "broken immigration system," claiming his department "doesn't bear responsibility" of what has transpired. He said, "The system has not been fixed for 30 years ... Congress is the only one who can fix it."
According to reports, at 8:30 a.m., a DPS trooper stopped a gray Nissan Frontier on 10th Street, south of Beal Street in McAllen for a traffic violation. The driver, identified as 44-year-old Williams Garcia-Granados was accompanied by a passenger, 17-year-old Williams Garcia-Redondo.
While searching the vehicle, the DPS trooper found 48 plastic bundles containing cocaine. According to Lt. Chris Olivarez, the spokesperson of Texas DPS in Southwest Texas, over 133 pounds of cocaine was seized by the trooper. The estimated street value of the concealed drugs is $1.2 million. Both individuals were placed under arrest and have been charged with manufacturing/delivering a controlled substance, which is a first-degree felony in the state of Texas.
Both men were then transported to the Hidalgo County Jail where they were booked. According to authorities, both men were in the country illegally from Reynosa; a city in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
This is one of many instances where authorities on the southern border are encountering illegal immigrants entering the United States with drugs. The open border policies set by the Biden administration allow cartels and smugglers to take advantage and easily transport mass amounts of harmful drugs across the southern border.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit, back in December 2023, Border Patrol officers found $10 million worth of methamphetamine and cocaine in vats of jalapeno paste. During that incident, a 28-year-old was arrested for transporting the drugs at the southern border in Otay Mesa, California.
The Otay Mesa Cargo Facility encountered the driver in a commercial tractor-trailer. The driver did have a valid border crossing card, but was still referred to a secondary area where the Border Patrol's K9 unit alerted officers to the contents inside of the vats. There were over 300 packages inside of the truck containing over 3,000 pounds of methamphetamines and over 500 pounds of cocaine.
Although the Biden administration is not as tough on the crisis at the southern border as critics woul like, parts of Texas have seen results since Governor Greg Abbott has secured portions of the border. In Eagle Pass, there has been a 76 percent decrease in immigrants illegally crossing the border.
Eagle Pass has been known to be one of the busiest ports for illegal border crossings, but since Texas locked it down, they have seen these numbers drastically drop. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in December 2023, there were over 71,000 apprehensions and by January 2024, those numbers dropped to just over 16,700.
Other parts of the southern border are not seeing results like this. In the last week of January, CBP reported that over 32,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended, with over 71 percent of them in Arizona and California. The current estimate is that 11 million illegal immigrants have flooded into the United States over the last three years.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to blame the "broken immigration system," claiming his department "doesn't bear responsibility" of what has transpired. He said, "The system has not been fixed for 30 years ... Congress is the only one who can fix it."
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Comments
2024-02-21T06:32-0500 | Comment by: Richard
I keep asking the question "WHY" is this administration not doing the job our Constitution says it is responsible for? Everyone should ask this question! What are the Democrats trying to pull off? Why should American taxpayers be responsible to pay $155 billion dollars annually to make sure illegal immigrants are taken care of better than American citizens! Is this more punishment that this administration is illegally doling out? I think this is outrageous! AMERICA DESERVES BETTER THAN THIS! ANYONE THINKS IT DOESN'T IS another terrorist listening to lies!