Texas Illegal Aliens: "They're Banging On Our Walls, On Front Porch" - Ranchers

[G.L.R.]

Texas Ranchers Live in Fear as Encounters With Illegal Aliens Increase

May 25,2021



They're banging on the walls, everything,' one rancher's wife said in a frantic phone call earlier this year

Living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere is the epitome of the American dream for many Texans. They keep to themselves, help their neighbors, and work hard. But in the past few months, ranchers have been getting unwelcome visitors who destroy their property, steal their vehicles, and scare their families. They're the illegal immigrants, usually adult males who have evaded Border Patrol and are heading to a large city where it's easier to disappear.Cole Hill, his wife, and their three children, ages 9, 7, and 5, live on a ranch in Kinney County, about 35 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border. The property also flanks a Border Patrol highway checkpoint, and those who want to evade capture tend to walk a wide berth around it. Hill said he's dealt with illegal aliens traversing his land for years, but only around 25 people a year, on average...

Illegal immigrants are captured on a game camera as they traverse Cole Hill's ranch in Kinney County, Texas.

"I'm going on about six weeks straight now with illegal [aliens] on my property on a daily basis, or multiple groups a day," he said during a local meeting on May 22. His house is set "way back in the middle of nowhere," he said. "We could have a full-blown gunfight on our front porch, and nobody would know about it." Hill's first encounter with illegal aliens... when his dog alerted him to a man on the front porch dressed head-to-toe in camouflage clothing... The next encounter happened about three weeks later, when Hill and his oldest son were working out on the ranch and his wife called to tell him that a group of illegal immigrants had surrounded the house. "They're looking into windows, they're at the back door, they're at the front door, they're banging on the walls, everything... He raced home and found one man on the front porch, while the rest had hidden as his truck approached. Again, he called Border Patrol, but it took agents more than an hour to get there.

Border Patrol agents detain about 50 illegal immigrants after they cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas

"I hate to think of what five men could do if they wanted to do harm to my family and they could get into my house as quick as they possibly could have." After that encounter, the Hills kept their normally free-range kids closer to home, unless they were outside with them. "After that happened, we don't even want our kids playing outside in the yard anymore," Hill said. He kept the kids mostly in the house for a few weeks, but let them run loose as he tackled some yard work one Saturday. "I didn't get halfway done mowing my front yard and the kids are all playing in the backyard ... and sure enough, here comes five more dudes ... slipping out of the brush, and they're hitting a jog on the way to my house, coming straight to my house. "I shut the mower down, I holler for the kids to get inside, I start yelling at these guys to stay back, I run inside and grab a firearm, and as soon as I came back out, they stopped... Over four days starting on May 20, Del Rio Border Patrol apprehended more illegal border-crossers than the population of Kinney County... Law enforcement officials told The Epoch Times that people are currently paying Mexican smuggling groups $2,200 per person to cross the river into the United States...

Border Patrol agents detain illegal immigrants after they cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas

The number of those who evade Border Patrol is also increasing. More than 42,000 illegal aliens evaded capture along the whole southern border in April. "We don't know who they are, where they're from," ... National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said... The damage to his property is also increasing. In the past few months, he's had his perimeter fence cut seven times, most of the time from top to bottom, and in three cases, an entire section was pulled out. Hill's water troughs and pipes are also getting damaged. "Next thing you know, I got 100 head of cows that are out of water just like that ... Read more ...

Texas Ranchers Live in Fear as Encounters With Illegal Aliens Increase
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/texas-ranchers-live-in-fear-as-encounters-with-illegal-aliens-increase_3829471.html

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

If this guy lives in a remote place and illegals just walk in, he could just shoot them all and who'd know?

It'd be hard raising a family having racial pests like that encroaching on you.
It's the Government's fault for not building that wall!
It was promised, but not delivered obviously!
It's not like the US can't build that? They have the largest economy on earth!