2. Governor’s Guidance
“Using intelligence, available state
assets, and a new command and
control structure, we are going to
take back our border from those who
exploit it.”
Governor Rick Perry
3. Border Security Threat Matrix
Enterprises Activities Tools
Cartels Crimes Against People Vehicles
Gulf Cartel Violent Crimes Cars
Los Zetas Murder Trucks / Containers
Sinaloa Cartel (CGO) Assassinations
Boats
Torture
Juarez Cartel (VCF) Aircraft
Beheadings
Tijuana Cartel Kidnapping Communications
Trans-National Gangs Human Smuggling Cell Phones (disposable)
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Drugs / Contraband Secure Radios
Barrio Aztecas (BA) Identity Theft Calling Cards
Mexikanemi Internet
Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos Crimes Against Property Intelligence
(HPLS) Vehicle theft for smuggling
Infrastructure destruction Scouts
Texas Syndicate
Infrastructure denial Sensors
Tango Blast
Cyber attacks Monitors
Tri-City Bombers
Property theft / destruction Human Sources
Aryan Brotherhood
Money Laundering
Terrorism Attacks Cash
Other Drug Trafficking Explosives Gift Cards
Organizations (DTOs) Chemical Pre-paid Credit Cards
Biological
Wire Transfers
Radiological
Terrorists Lodging/Storage
Nuclear
Al Qaeda and Sunni Terrorist Safe Houses
Toxic Industrial Chemicals
Hamas Stash/Warehouses
Hezbollah
7. Threat
•Powerful and ruthless Mexican crime
organizations such as the Gulf, Juarez,
Los Zetas and Sinaloa Cartels dominate
the lucrative U.S. drug and human
smuggling market and constitute a public
safety and homeland security threat to the
U.S.
•Mexican crime organizations utilize former
military commandos such as the Zetas and
Kaibiles, and transnational gangs, such as
the Barrio Azteca, Texas Syndicate, MS-13
and the Mexican Mafia to support their
operations on both sides of the border.
8. Transnational Threat
• Every major gang in the State of Texas
is connected to Mexican cartel
smuggling operations. These gangs are
responsible for a disproportionate
amount of the violent crimes in our
communities.
9. Gang Recruitment of Teens
Cartel hires Laredo teen as hit man
Houston Chronicle
Gabriel Cardona, who is now 20, was charged with killing five
people in the span of 10 months. So far, he’s pleaded guilty to
two murder charges and faces three more.
Cardona was the “hookup,” the connection between a high-
level drug trafficker in Mexico and a rotating cast of teenagers Gabriel Cardona
and young men who act as assassins on the U.S. side of the
border.
At least one, Rosalio Reta, a 17 year old Houston native, was
trained at a Gulf Cartel camp in Mexico.
- Recruitment profile: American kids, age 17-24
- Dubbed “Zetillas” – slang for “Baby Zetas”
Rosalio Reta
- Generally receive $5,000 - $50,000 for murder,
depending on their role and target
10. Gang Recruitment of Teens
Teen made $50,000 smuggling drugs
across border
El Paso, Texas (CNN), April 21, 2009
Danny Santos, now 21, says he became one of the
thousands of American and Mexican teenagers
recruited into the dangerous world of drug smuggling.
USBP officials in El Paso and San Diego report that in
recent months, they’ve seen a rise in the number of juvenile drug smugglers
getting busted at border checkpoints.
At age 15, Santos says he met “a guy” at a party who introduced him
to drug kingpins in Ciudad Juarez, MX.
He was arrested once, but spent only a few days in jail. He said charges were
dropped because he was
younger than 18 when arrested and juvenile cases are sealed.
11. Threat
Gang Recruitment of Teens
Teen drug-smuggling arrests jump
El Paso Times, March 30, 2009
EL PASO -- More juvenile drug smugglers have been
arrested in March on the El Paso border than in the
last two months combined, USBP officials said. There have
been 17 accused smugglers age 17 and younger
arrested in March compared with five in February and seven
in January
12. Violence in Mexico
The body count continues to rise in Mexico as
a result of cartel activity:
Juarez Mexico
2008 1,609 6,290
2009: 2,657 7,724
2010: 1,631* 6,248**
*As of 13 Jul 2010
**As of 15 Jul 2010
33. Operation RIO GRANDE
Border Operation Characteristics
Dallam Sherman Hansford Ochiltree Lipscomb
• 5 Border Sectors / 1 Corridor
Hartley Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill
287
• 8-24 Days in Duration
Oldham Potter Carson Gray Wheeler
June –October 2006
• June 2 – October 8, 2006
40
$9.7m
Deaf Smith Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth
• Local, State, Federal 27 Parmer Castro Swisher Briscoe Hall Childress
Hardeman
• Intelligence Based Operation EL 84
PASO Bailey Lamb Hale Floyd Motley Cottle Wilbarger
Foard Wichita
Clay
Montague Lamar
Cooke
Cochran Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens King Knox Baylor Archer
287 Grayson Fannin Red River
Bowie
Delta
35
Franklin
Yoakum
Operation BIG
Terry Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall Haskell Throckmorton Young Jack Wise
Denton
Collin
Titus
Morris
Hunt Hopkins
Cass
30 Camp
Gaines BEND
87 84 Dawson Borden Scurry Fisher Jones Shackelford Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Tarrant Dallas
Rockwall Rains
Van Zandt
Wood
Upshur
Marion
Dona Ana Kaufman
Harrison
Gregg
Hood
Andrews Martin Howard Mitchell Nolan Taylor Callahan Eastland
35W
Johnson Ellis
20
Smith
20
Luna Operation DEL RIO Erath Somervell
Hill
35E Navarro
Henderson
Rusk
Panola
Comanche Bosque Cherokee
Loving Winkler a Midland Glasscock Sterling Coke Runnels Coleman Anderson
El Paso Brown Shelby
Hamilton Freestone
Nacogdoches
McLennan
Hidalgo
Hudspeth Culberson Ward
Crane 87 Mills Limestone San Augustine
Upton Reagan Tom Green Coryell Houston
20 Concho
Operation
Leon Sabine
Irion Falls
Reeves Angelina
McCulloch San Saba
10 Lampasas
Bell
35 45 Trinity
Robertson Jasper
Madison
Operation DEL RIO
Pecos
Pecos
10
Schleicher Menard
Burnet Milam CORRIDOR Polk Tyler
Newton
Jeff Davis Crockett
Sutton
Mason
Llano
TBSOC
Williamson Brazos
Grimes
Walker
San Jacinto
June 2-27, 2006
Kimble Burleson
Hardin
Blanco Travis Montgomery
Lee
Gillespie
Terrell Washington
Liberty Orange
Bastrop
Operation LAREDO Presidio Kerr Hays
Waller
Val Verde
Val Verde Edwards Kendall Austin Jefferson
Fayette Harris
Brewster Real Comal Caldwell
Bandera 10 Chambers
July 8-20, 2006 Bexar
Guadalupe
Gonzales
Lavaca
Colorado
Fort Bend
59 Galveston
Kinney Uvalde Medina
Wharton
Wilson Brazoria
Operation EL PASO Atascosa 37 Karnes
DeWitt
Jackson Matagorda
Zavala Frio
August 3-17, 2006 Maverick
35
Goliad
Victoria
Calhoun
Dimmit La Salle Bee Refugio
Operation BIG BEND McMullen Live
Oak
77Aransas
August 17-30, 2006 Webb
Duval
Jim Wells
281
San Patricio
Nueces
Operation VALLEY STAR Operation LAREDO
Kleberg
Operation VALLEY
September 8-22, 2006 Zapata
Jim Hogg Brooks
Kenedy
77 STAR
Operation CORRIDOR Starr
Hidalgo
Willacy
October 1-8, 2006 Cameron
34. Operation WRANGLER
$6,043,937
Jan. – Apr. 2007
Began
January 2007
SOs throughout
all participating
counties
35. Operation WRANGLER Resources
Texas DPS (Night) Law Enforcement Agencies
4 X Helicopters 90 Sheriff Departments ICE
138 Police Departments US Postal Service
Texas CAP (Day) National Park Service
DPS THP
6 X Fixed Wing
DPS CLE Railroad Police
Texas Parks and Wildlife Texas Parks and Wildlife TSA
8 X Patrol Boats Texas Cattleman’s Asso FBI
Texas Task Force - 1 DEA
2 X Patrol Boats
CBP Air & Marine (Day / Night) US Coast Guard Law Enforcement / Texas Military Forces
23 X Helicopters 3 X Helicopters
• Local Law Enforcement
18 X Fixed Wing 3 X Fixed Wing
- 1854 Personnel, 512 Vehicles
17 X Patrol Boats 8 X Patrol Boats
• State Law Enforcement
Texas Military Forces (Aviation Forces) - 359 personnel, 223 vehicles
Operation JUMP START (Night Operations) • Federal Law Enforcement
- 10 X Helicopters - 2370 Personnel, 560 Vehicles
Operation WRANGLER (Day) •Texas Military Forces (Operations JUMP START)
- 5 X Helicopters - 1707 personnel, 751 vehicles
- 6 X Fixed Wing •Texas Military Forces (Operation WRANGLER)
- 604 personnel , 154 vehicles
Texas Military Forces (Ground Forces)
Total Forces – 2311 (Operation JUMP START
and WRANGLER)
Total: 6894 personnel,
Operation JUMP START – 1707 Guardsmen
- 644 (Armed Border Security)
2200 vehicles
Operation WRANGLER – 604 Guardsmen
- 356 (Armed Border Security)
Aviation – Maritime Assets
- 10 Security Platoons Local, State and Federal Aviation / Maritime
- 2 Quick Reaction Force Platoons - 45 Helicopters
- 4 Logistic Support Bases - 33 Fixed Wing Aircraft
- 35 Patrol Boats / Ships
36. Texas Response ( 2008-2009)
$110 million from 80th Texas
Legislature has enabled:
• Border-wide continuous
operations with no break
• Interagency participation
Federal; State; Local
• Seamless sharing of
information Operation
• Additional boots on the BORDER STAR Wal
ker
ground (overtime) Guadalu
Border pe
• Rapid re-direction of Operations
resources and assets
• Deployment of technology
37. Texas Response (2008-2009)
Legislative funds provided:
• 186 additional DPS Troopers, Investigators, Texas
Rangers and support personnel
• 45 additional Game Wardens
• Four state-of-the-art helicopters
• Six Joint Operations Intelligence Centers to support
coordinated patrol operations
• A Border Security Operations Center to support border-
wide information sharing and operations
• Law enforcement equipment, such as in-car computers,
radio communications towers and radios, four-wheel
drive vehicles, body armor, and weapons
• Overtime and operational costs for local and state law
enforcement
38. Texas Response (2008-2009)
Boots on the Ground
Additional resources for overtime significantly increased
patrol hours on the border:
• 540,115 additional local enforcement hours
• 472,644 additional Texas Highway Patrol hours
• 49,572 additional Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden
patrol hours
• 10,056 additional DPS Aviation hours
