WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) The director who oversees the Texas State Troopers says people from countries known to have a “terrorism presence” have already been caught on the Texas-Mexico border.
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, which supervises the Texas Highway Patrol and State Troopers, warned Sunday at an annual Texas Border Coalition meeting that vulnerabilities at the southern border may leave Americans open to a possible terrorist attack.
“We have individuals that we’ve needed to debrief in Pashto/Dari,” the director said, referring to two languages spoken in Afghanistan. “Not a lot of Pashto and Dari speakers around.”
“But you can’t think about the last attack; you have to think of the next attack and where our vulnerabilities are,” the director added. “So, we’re concerned about that.”
McCraw added that the DPS also has a contingency plan involving increasing security at ports of entry, should violence spillover from Mexico. The DPS also works alongside Border Patrol watching the border through the use of about 5,000 motion-detection cameras on the border.
In July 2014, reporter Joe Biggs showed how anyone wanting to enter the US could easily do so by negotiating steel barricades serving as a makeshift boundary in Hereford, Arizona.
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