Illegal aliens have begun working with criminal networks to steal truckloads of oil from America’s largest oilfields in the Permian Basin in West Texas, according to local authorities.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), whose district spans 800 miles of the Texas border, organized local and federal law enforcement to strategize how to counter the mass theft by the criminals, characterizing the issue as an energy security problem more than a border security problem.
“The bottom line is the border crisis is expanding, and it is morphing into other things, and part of that is you have folks that are Cuban nationals that are kind of settling out in West Texas and in some cases are part of this increase in oil theft,” Gonzales told the Washington Examiner on Friday in a phone interview, adding that Cuban involvement in the enterprise was “growing.”
