* Guest: Brooks County, TX Sheriff Urbino “Benny” Martinez, Sheriff Martinez has served the County of Brooks since 2009 – co.brooks.tx.us

* Prior to Brooks County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Martinez served as a Texas State Trooper from 1979 until his retirement in 2008, retiring at the rank of Sergeant. During that time, Martinez’ responsibilities spanned from enforcing traffic and criminal laws, investigation of motor vehicle traffic crashes, and providing a visible police presence in his area of responsibility. In 1990, Martinez joined the Narcotics Service of the Department of Public Safety which charged him with the overall direction of the state’s enforcement efforts against illegal drug trafficking in Texas. He played an integral role in identifying and targeting individuals and organizations diverting large quantities of controlled substances for illicit sale while Undercover in the South Texas area until his retirement in 2008.

* Since 2012 Brooks County has been in the middle of the busiest corridors for illegal immigration in the US. The flood of rescues and migrant deaths nearly bankrupted the Sheriff’s Office that year, forcing them to cut staff and other necessities, like health insurance and janitorial services.

* “It was rough, but we made it through,” Martinez said. “We were able to find help from both sides of the aisle, democrats and republican representatives who really stepped up to the plate and came through for us. The one who is still missing in action is the federal government.”

* Sheriff Benny: “I’m talking about this county being classified as a border county to get the resources it needs,”

* Brooks County, Texas, Sheriff Benny Martinez testified to the record number of dead bodies his deputies found, over $1 million in costs to the county, hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage to residents, and record numbers of human and drug smuggling occurring since President Joe Biden’s been in office.

* The Daily Caller reports, “Hundreds of migrants attempted to storm the border and enter the US via the Paso Del Norte Bridge in Juarez, Mexico, Sunday afternoon, according to US officials and video of the event.

* Our contact in Juarez, MX tells us a massive group of at least 1,000 migrants just attempted to rush a port of entry in El Paso in an effort to get into the United States. Video shows them pushing past the Mexican side of Paso Del Norte bridge.

* A standoff between hundreds of migrants and US Customs and Border Protection officers in riot gear rocked the border town of El Paso over the weekend as the two sides faced off on the Paso Del Norte international bridge connecting the border down to the Mexican city of Juárez.

* “Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said his 18,000 members had been waiting two years for Biden to come and see what they had to deal with every day.

* US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used “port hardening measures” to “temporarily” stop the group from entering.

* CBP encountered more than 2.3M migrants at the US-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 Alone!

* This past January, Biden visited the border town for a photo op and to declare that there was not a problem and that our eyes were deceiving us when we saw videos and pictures of thousands of immigrants crossing the border.

* Val Verde County, TX Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez.

* Border Crisis: Texas Sheriff tells how his small town is being overrun by migrants – I’m a Texas sheriff with 4 deputies patrolling 110 miles.