The Texas town under ‘martial law’: Eagle Pass residents reveal how cops and troops are seizing their property and questioning locals as it stands at the epicenter of the migrant crisis

Residents in a border city in Texas have revealed how police and National Guard troops have taken over  – seizing their properties as migrants’ trash lines the streets.

Eagle Pass, which is home to 28,500 Texans, has become the ground zero in the country-wide political fight, as swathes of lawmakers, celebrities and journalists flock to give their two cents on the ever-swelling migrant border crisis.

Illegal migrants crossing has overwhelmed nearly every sector in Eagle Pass – but state and federal responses have too, weary residents say. The Del Rio sector, including Eagle Pass, reported 16,718 migrant arrests in January.

The issue has become exacerbated under Joe Biden – and the  southern border has witnessed a record of at least 6.3 million migrants crossing since he took office.

Eagle Pass resident Jessie Fuentes, 63, who owns a kayak business, whose lifeline is the water, told the Dallas Morning News about the Rio Grande: ‘We can’t even see it. We can’t even touch it.’

Because the banks and parks leading to the river have been under state control for over a month, Fuentes’ kayak services are only used by journalists nowadays. His business is failing – and he isn’t the only one.

Speaking of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Fuentes said: ‘He’s abusive, he’s cruel and he doesn’t care. He does not care about what’s happening in our community. The community didn’t sign up for this.’

The National Guard have swept onto 47-acre Shelby Park – a once-thriving popular plot of land with locals, which was an entryway for the only public boat ramp. Even federal Border Patrol agents are banned from entering on Abbott’s orders.

Abbott said at a news conference on February 4: ‘We’re not going to contain ourselves just to this park. We are expanding to further areas to make sure that we will expand our level of deterrence and denial of illegal entry into the United States.’

He said Shelby Park will stay under state control ‘as long as it takes to maintain security and eliminate crossings.’

Locals Magali Urbina and her husband, Hugo, own a pecan orchard on the Rio Grande – but the movement of people from the border has made their lives miserable.

Not only were migrants directly crossing on their land, but she also found it burdensome when Operation Lone Star forced themselves onto their property to quell the situation.

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