The crisis at the border is very real. As Christians, we must do our best to secure our border and protect our people.

From Intercessors for America. In the Pray With America’s Leaders webcast on April 28, IFA President Dave Kubal asked Texas Senator Ted Cruz some questions about the border. The following prayer requests are quotes from Senator Cruz himself. You can watch the whole interview on IFA’s watch page, or on rumble.

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“Pray for the children, first of all, pray for the children who are in the hands of these traffickers, that they be protected. So many of them are being abused and will deal with the consequence of that abuse for the rest of their lives.”

“Pray for the border patrol agents who are true heroes. They risk their lives. We just had a Texas national guardsman drown in the Rio Grande trying to rescue people who were drowning and he gave his own life.”

“Pray for the heroes who are trying to secure the border. … they’re demoralized because they risk their lives, they catch traffickers, human traffickers, drug traffickers, and their political leadership turns around and releases them, and it is amazing that they go into work each day when they’re being undermined by their political leadership.”

“Pray for new leadership that will actually enforce the law and stop this crisis because it is destroying real lives on a daily basis and it’s indefensible.”

Sen. Cruz mentioned traffickers slipping through the border, the the problem is much deeper than that. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants slipped into our country last year, evading the law and bringing the influence of cartels with them.

From The Center Square. While Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claims the southern border is secure and he has a plan in place for increased surges, those in law enforcement say the opposite is true. Not only have Border Patrol agents lost operational control of the border, they’ve also lost operational awareness and have no idea who is coming through, current and former Border Patrol agents told The Center Square.

In President Joe Biden’s first year in office, an estimated 1 million people entered the U.S. illegally and evaded capture, Border Patrol agents estimate. Known as “gotaways,” they aren’t included in the apprehension and enforcement data published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection every month.

There are generally two groups of people entering the U.S. illegally, those in law enforcement told The Center Square. Those who surrender at ports of entry claiming to seek asylum or other immigration-related claims, and gotaways.

Gotaways are considered to be more dangerous, those in law enforcement –  from Border Patrol agents, to sheriffs, to local police – say. When they’re captured, they often have criminal records. Sheriffs attempt to quantify the ones who’ve evaded capture through a range of methods after finding stash houses and images of groups of people wearing camouflage and backpacks traveling on foot caught on cameras placed on private properties and in other areas.

Last year, CBP “officially released known, documented numbers of illegal aliens who evaded apprehension to be roughly 380,000 people,” retired Chief of U.S. Border Patrol Rodney Scott told The Center Square. “Last month, we learned from a leaked Border Patrol document that there were over 300,000 known people who evaded apprehension” in the first three months of this year, he said….

“Cartels are using the massive numbers of people as a weapon to overwhelm Border Patrol,” Scott said, “so they can intentionally bring in criminals, terrorists and narcotics….

In fiscal 2021, CBP reported 1.9 million total enforcement actions. Already in fiscal 2022, CBP has reported 1.2 million enforcement actions, excluding gotaways….

Retired Border Patrol agent Frank Lopez, Jr., who’s filed to run in Texas’ Congressional District 23, told The Center Square, “Personnel on the ground have now lost operational awareness let alone operational control because they’re not patrolling like they used to, meaning Border Patrol has no idea who is coming through or how many are. The best we have are estimates.”

We have also included a video below in which Federalist Reporter Tristan Justice explains just how dangerous the border crisis is, and how that danger is being unfairly minimized by many in power.

From The Federalist.

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(Excerpt from The Center Square and video from The Federalist. Photo Credit: Greg Bulla on Unsplash)