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DPS director reports lower border apprehensions, active protest response and pending Homeland Security division
Summary
Colonel Martin told the Public Safety Commission that several border metrics are trending down, the department is preparing for nationwide immigration‑related protests, and the Legislature authorized a Homeland Security division pending gubernatorial action.
Colonel Martin delivered the director’s report at the June Public Safety Commission meeting, outlining recent operational metrics at the border, the Department’s posture for planned protests and a pending Homeland Security division created by the 80th Legislature.
Colonel Martin said DPS troopers made 438 criminal arrests in roughly the last five weeks, turned over 392 migrant apprehensions to U.S. Border Patrol, conducted 41 vehicle pursuits and 22 bailouts, and seized about 396 pounds of illicit drugs, $127,000 in cash and 36 firearms. He described those levels as “at an all time low” compared with earlier years and said average daily apprehensions across nine Border Patrol sectors are about 230 per day; when California, Arizona and New Mexico were separated from the…
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