Surveillance camera image of migrants bringing homemade ladder to climb over Texas "Border Wall"Photo byTexas Dept. of Public Safety

Migrants illegally crossing into Texas have worked out ways to defeat barriers intended to keep them out of the state installed as part of "Operation Lone Star." Many are now attempting to cross the "Border Wall" and other solid barriers using homemade ladders.

Homemade ladder used by migrants to illegally cross from Mexico at the "Border Wall."Photo byAlexandra Lains (via x.com)

Where the border wall has not yet been built, Texas National Guard troops have been stringing razor and concertina wire barriers. However, that is not stopping human smuggling guides from crossing into the state with migrants in tow.

Texas National Guard Engineers install concertina barrier at border with Mexico in El Paso as part of "Operation Lone Star."Photo byTexas Military Department

This week, Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers assigned to "Operation Lone Star" arrested a 44-year-old smuggling guide who was carrying wire cutters used to cut through barriers installed along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. With him were eight migrants.

Texas DPS Officers arrested a "migrant guide" from Mexico who used wirecutters to defeat barriers installed along the Rio Grande.Photo byTexas Department of Public Safety

Migrant guides also frequently use wirecutters to cut through fences as they cross private ranches to evade Border Patrol checkpoints north of the Texas border. Repairing the fences costs those ranchers money and endangers the livestock the fences are meant to keep from escaping into a neighboring ranch or onto a nearby road.

Those aren't the only tools migrants and their cartel guides use to evade law enforcement as they attempt to illegally cross into and through the state. It's not unusual for migrants caught crossing through private property to be found wearing camouflage and outfitted with shoes with carpet glued to their soles (to disguise their footprints).

Migrants caught by Border Patrol Agents while wearing camouflage and carpet glued to their shoe soles to hide their footprints.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol

In the El Paso Sector, Border Patrol Agents have even caught migrants wearing elaborate "Ghillie Suits" to evade capture that were originally designed for use by military snipers.

Migrants outfitted with elaborate "Ghillie Suit" camouflage captured in the desert by El Paso Sector Border Patrol Agents.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol

When you consider that temperatures in the desert within the El Paso Border Patrol Sector routinely soar well past the 100-degree mark, you understand just how desperate these migrants are to don these bulky suits in the hope of avoiding detection.

"Ghillie-suited" migrants under arrest in the desert of the El Paso Border Patrol Sector.Photo byU.S. Border Patrol

And - in case you were wondering how these migrants obtained camouflage (including "Ghillie Suits") to illegally enter the state of Texas - many of them told law enforcement officers the cartels which charged them thousands of dollars to cross the Rio Grande -also sold them the camouflage clothing they were wearing.

Do you believe the border with Mexico is secure?

Share your opinion in the comments on this article!

For more stories like this "Follow Me" on the Newsbreak App and "Like" this article to stay up to date on immigration and border security issues regularly covered by Jack Beavers on Newsbreak like these:

• Border Battle: Texas vs Mexican Cartel
• Texas Border: Smugglers Endanger Lives
• Mexican Cartel's Brazen "Texas Operation"

You Can Make Money Writing For Newsbreak! APPLY HERE