Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson toured the U.S.-Mexico border with Border Patrol agents and Breitbart Texas Director Brandon Darby. Despite heavy rainfall, Robertson got a first-hand look at just how wide open the border is and what agents have to deal with in attempting to secure our border. Robertson is currently in a primary runoff for the Texas CD-19 seat left open by retiring Rep. Randy Neugebauer and the mayor has emerged as a champion for the Border Patrol agents’ cause.
The tour of the border followed Robertson’s announcement last week where he committed to giving a megaphone to the men and women who are the boots on the ground along our borders. “The actual Border Patrol agents should sit at the head of the policy-making table,” the Lubbock mayor said in a statement first reported by Breitbart Texas. “The border security policies I fight for will reflect the expertise and advice I receive from them. They will have an advocate like never before and I will honor them to the best of my abilities. Not only will I support the legislation the Border Patrol agents say they need, I will introduce and fight for legislation they say they need.”
Robertson was invited to the border area near Laredo, a high-profile drug smuggling and human trafficking area controlled by the ruthless Los Zetas drug cartel, by National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 President Hector Garza and Breitbart Texas. Garza represents the men and woman who routinely put their lives on the line to try and shutdown the efforts of these deadly cartels.
The Lubbock mayor told Breitbart Texas he decided to tour the area because the region “is a wide open mess that must be secured immediately.”
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