{"id":90768,"date":"2021-10-16T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=90768"},"modified":"2021-10-16T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T22:10:07","slug":"bidens-manufactured-border-crisis-purposefully-putting-texas-guardsmen-in-harms-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=90768","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Manufactured Border Crisis Purposefully Putting Texas Guardsmen In Harm&#8217;s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Texas Guardsmen Shot At By Heavily Armed Cartel Gunmen At Border<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Heavily armed drug cartels are becoming more aggressive along the Texas-Mexico border amid President Biden&#8217;s immigration crisis. Last week, Fox News&#8217; Bill Melugin captured cartel members\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/mexican-cartels-seen-firing-machine-guns-us-above-national-guard-recon-post\">shooting over Texas Guardsmen<\/a>\u00a0stationed at an observation post. Now Melugin says cartel members are shooting &#8220;at Texas National Guard soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident occurred Thursday night in Roma, Texas, when suspected cartel members fired &#8220;two shots across the border at Texas National Guard soldiers,&#8221; according to Melugin. He said this is &#8220;the same area where cartel gunmen have been seen taunting the soldiers in recent days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1449133187032969217&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ftexas-guardsmen-shoot-heavily-armed-cartel-gunmen-border&amp;sessionId=e151b6b5159f0b474a01b6e89378b851ef9f5bca&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449133187032969217\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>The Fox News reporter tweeted a video of suspected cartel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/mexican-cartels-seen-firing-machine-guns-us-above-national-guard-recon-post\">members firing machine guns<\/a>\u00a0over a National Guard observation last week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1449133706656944130&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ftexas-guardsmen-shoot-heavily-armed-cartel-gunmen-border&amp;sessionId=e151b6b5159f0b474a01b6e89378b851ef9f5bca&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1449133706656944130\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TxDPS\">Texas Department of Public Safety<\/a>\u00a0(<em>DPS)\u00a0<\/em>said, &#8220;two shots were fired across the border from Mexico into Texas, &#8220;believed to be aimed at Texas National Guard personnel.&#8221; They stated, &#8220;Texas Rangers responded to the scene&#8221; and confirmed &#8220;no injuries,&#8221; adding that an &#8220;investigation into this incident&#8221; is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to\u00a0DPS&#8217; statement published on Facebook, many users were disgusted how &#8220;sleepy Joe Biden&#8217;s world&#8221; is falling apart. Some suggested Guardsmen and all law enforcement fired upon by cartel members should &#8220;shoot back.&#8221; Others said this is an &#8220;act of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Force should be met with force, you do not have to wait until the bullet hits you to protect yourself, it is called Self Defense!&#8221; someone said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another said, &#8220;they need a reaper drone out there.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Biden administration seemingly ignores the border crisis, Texas Governor Greg Abbot has continued increasing Guardsmen along the border as he warns of &#8220;increased caravans attempting to cross the border caused by Biden&#8217;s open border policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latest leg down in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/stoddard-if-polls-are-right-dems-are-doomed-if-theyre-wrong-its-worse\">Biden&#8217;s polling data<\/a>\u00a0may be derived from all the bad press surrounding the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-16_10-32-54_1.png?itok=V8Dr475T\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-16_10-32-54_1.png?itok=V8Dr475T\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-10-16_10-32-54_1.png?itok=V8Dr475T\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"439\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b1d8e220-fad2-4364-a615-f5f2a86265c6\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s choice to ignore the southern border crisis has been a godsend for Republicans ahead of the 2022 midterms, who can now use the immigration angle to highlight how the president was ill-prepared.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/texas-guardsmen-shoot-heavily-armed-cartel-gunmen-border\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/texas-guardsmen-shoot-heavily-armed-cartel-gunmen-border<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Guardsmen Shot At By Heavily Armed Cartel Gunmen At Border<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}