{"id":68626,"date":"2023-08-29T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68626"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:52:33","slug":"texas-border-news-more-proof-the-feds-are-more-interested-in-subsidizing-rather-than-stopping-the-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/29\/texas-border-news-more-proof-the-feds-are-more-interested-in-subsidizing-rather-than-stopping-the-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Border News: More Proof The Feds are more Interested in Subsidizing rather than Stopping the Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68627 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge-850x569.jpg 850w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/migrant-surge.jpg 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"t-headline t-serif t-lh-s has-b-btm-marg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/08\/29\/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence\/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=96397372ba-trib-newsletters-thebrief&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-96397372ba-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&amp;mc_cid=96397372ba\">Texas National Guard disbanded intelligence wing after members used WhatsApp to spy on migrants<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"t-copy t-links-underlined t-align-left t-dropcap\">When officers from the Texas National Guard showed up to their 7 a.m. meeting with federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations in El Paso, they didn\u2019t arrive empty-handed.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"t-copy t-links-underlined t-align-left\">Six military intelligence officials turned over a list of names at the February 2022 meeting. The Texans were part of an intelligence directorate supporting Operation Lone Star,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/directory\/greg-abbott\/\">\u00a0Gov. Greg Abbott<\/a>&#8216;s state-run border mission. The officers, which included the group\u2019s top two leaders, told federal agents they\u2019d secretly infiltrated invite-only WhatsApp group chats filled with migrants and smugglers and wanted their help investigating the targets they\u2019d identified, according to a sworn statement attached to a whistleblower complaint filed later that month.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-plugin__inner\">\n<h2>The Homeland Security officials in the meeting rebuffed the Texans on the spot \u2014 with one official saying that they were an investigative body and \u201cnot an intelligence agency,\u201d the whistleblower recalled.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"t-copy t-links-underlined t-align-left\">An investigation by Military Times and The Texas Tribune has found that Texas National Guard leaders disbanded Operation Lone Star\u2019s intelligence wing after whistleblowers reported the WhatsApp surveillance, which targeted migrant groups to track them through Mexico, because they believed it violated long-standing rules against state-run spy operations. During the same period, another team from the intelligence directorate allegedly sent classified FBI intelligence to their Texas Guard colleagues in an apparent violation of federal secrecy laws, according to an internal incident report.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/08\/29\/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence\/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=96397372ba-trib-newsletters-thebrief&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-96397372ba-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&amp;mc_cid=96397372ba\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>Once again we see the Feds stepping all over Texas State Sovereignty because of some bureaucratic agency jurisdiction bullshit.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>Solid field intelligence is the lifeblood of any good law enforcement or military operation.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>This is a classic example of a State Agency being shut down because they are actually accomplishing something that might help stem the tide! The Texas National Guard is operating completely within their Constitutional rights to Protect their borders because the Federal Government (DHS) with all their technological resources, refuses to do it.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>This is Treason pure and simple.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67695 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Texas_Secession_Flag_Variant_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Texas_Secession_Flag_Variant_2.jpg 551w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Texas_Secession_Flag_Variant_2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas National Guard disbanded intelligence wing after members used WhatsApp to spy on migrants &nbsp; When officers from the Texas National Guard showed up to their 7 a.m. meeting with federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations in El Paso, they didn\u2019t arrive empty-handed. Six military intelligence officials turned over a list of names at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,16280,5445,2351,2717,5478,2805,5406,3140,473,74,4892,5540,3553,2620,15203,5586,3725,5984,5985,3727,16173,15639,3712,10],"tags":[16242,3084,3494,9997,7806,5983,4891,6124,16369,9050,4601,4249,7188,16370,9527,16368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68631,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68626\/revisions\/68631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}