The Border Crisis Discussed in Tyler

TYLER — The conservative group Grassroots America – We the People brought in multiple Texas State Representatives to its Friday meeting to discuss the border crisis. KETK reports Executive Director JoAnn Fleming and her colleagues recently visited the border to see how illegal aliens get into our country. Fleming and her team sat in dangerous areas surrounding the border at night for several hours before being approached by a border patrol agent who approached them only armed with a flash light. She said after witnessing the events first hand, she realized how much danger our border patrol and other law enforcement agents are in while being in the area.

Much of the area isn’t even patrolled by the law enforcement because of lack of manpower, and cartel members giving themselves access to areas where border patrol can’t pursue them, such as federal property. Fleming showed members clips from the Project Veritas documentary in which investigative reporter James O’Keefe showed how easy it was to get into our country. He even did it dressed as Osama Bin Laden. Fleming’s trip was also documented and will be shown at the next Grassroots America meeting. She says Grassroots members don’t blame border patrollers, who don’t have the manpower or the equipment they truly need, but the government that isn’t following the law.