The President of the Texas Farm Bureau says many of their members are concerned for their farms, ranches, and the safety of their families and employees because of the surge of foreigners crossing the southern border.
Russell Boening tells Brownfield producers in the border states are dealing with non-stop issues. “The damage to property, whether it be your crops, your fences, and other things like that, and then just the safety issue when there’s that number of people coming through, and some of them quite frankly with criminal intent.”
Boening says it is common for human traffickers to steal vehicles, and when law enforcement tries to catch them, they go off-road into fences and fields where the occupants “bailout” or split up and run, knowing some will not get caught.
