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America's border war has begun: TODD BENSMAN's dramatic eyewitness report on Texas' invasion of a Mexican cartel island crawling with gang members and ringed
Daily Mail ^ | 10/5/2023 | Todd Bensman

Posted on 10/05/2023 9:39:23 AM PDT by Kartographer

In the early dawn's orange glow, a Texas Rangers commander briefs a heavily armed invasion force.

They're preparing to seize a remote, 170-acre Mexican cartel-controlled island in the middle of the Rio Grande River overlooked by sniper nests and potentially booby-trapped.

Some of the dozens of assembled men shift from one foot to another or reposition their M-4 rifles as they listen to their commanders' instructions.

'Keep a close eye on those structures up there that have height advantage on us,' he warns.

'In case we do get engaged and someone is shot' medical evacuation plans are in place and there are blood bags if the wounded need a transfusion, he assures them.

Any questions?

This may seem like a scene from a far-flung warzone.

But it's just a glimpse of the hot war on America's southern border – a direct consequence of an out-of-control crisis that has resulted in nearly five million illegal migrants entering the United States since President Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; borderwar; carteldelnoreste; cartels; cdn; drugs; gulfcartel; humantrafficking; illegalaliens; island; mexico; riogrand; texasrangers; wod
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We will be fighting some of these people in or streets, possible in our homes.
1 posted on 10/05/2023 9:39:23 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Bad link


2 posted on 10/05/2023 9:40:31 AM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Kartographer

We should ask Ukrane for our bullets back, we’re going to need them.


3 posted on 10/05/2023 9:43:14 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Make orwell fiction again)
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To: Kartographer

Take out the towers first.


4 posted on 10/05/2023 9:43:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Kartographer

If socialism is so great, why have 50 thousand Venezualians breached the U.S. border in Sept. alone (according to CBP) to get to the land of the free and home of the brave.

Any open border rino advocates care to weigh in? I know there are centrists on board. They have been sent in unison to support McCarthy.


5 posted on 10/05/2023 9:45:02 AM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: Kartographer

Begun? Really? People are slow.


6 posted on 10/05/2023 9:45:55 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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...a direct consequence of an out-of-control crisis that has resulted in nearly five million illegal migrants entering the United States since President Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021...

So much TRUTH in those words.

7 posted on 10/05/2023 9:50:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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Take out the towers first.

Exactly. Surley the Texas Guard has an Apache or two available...

8 posted on 10/05/2023 9:51:19 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Kartographer

Page no longer exists....


9 posted on 10/05/2023 9:52:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Kartographer

This sounds like a job for the Texas National Guard, not the Texas Rangers.


10 posted on 10/05/2023 9:52:10 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Kartographer

new link:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589871/mexico-cartel-texas-invasion-border-war-todd-bensman.html


11 posted on 10/05/2023 9:55:15 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: grobdriver

Didn’t Clint Eastwood use a L.A.W.S. shoulder-launched rocket to take out the last bad guy on Alcatraz in one of his Dirty Harry films? That should do the trick.


12 posted on 10/05/2023 9:55:35 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: Kartographer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589871/mexico-cartel-texas-invasion-border-war-todd-bensman.html

How do you get invited to this little soiree?

13 posted on 10/05/2023 9:56:28 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Kartographer

It’s not going to stop until the Rio Grand runs red. That won’t happen because Americans don’t have the stomach for it


14 posted on 10/05/2023 10:02:56 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Kartographer

NYC has examples of ‘asylum seekers’ on scooters under direction of Cartels plying their wares (drugs & prostitution) unregistered vehicles are seized only to have new the next day.


15 posted on 10/05/2023 10:03:04 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: BigFreakinToad

Then they will have this!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-66911902


16 posted on 10/05/2023 10:05:09 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Kartographer; Rusty0604; texas booster; All

17 posted on 10/05/2023 10:08:11 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: griswold3

Americans put up with ANTIFA and BLM riots, so I’m sure the majority won’t mind that either


18 posted on 10/05/2023 10:08:16 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Kartographer

19 posted on 10/05/2023 10:09:25 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: BigFreakinToad

I think right now you are correct. But Americans are getting the stomach for a lot of things that a few weeks ago were unthinkable.


20 posted on 10/05/2023 10:11:52 AM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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