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Texas Gunboats Help Patrol Border

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    Keeping drug cartels out

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Hey Martha good morning to you as you know state law enforcement working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to help fortify.

The 12100.

Mile long border -- shares with Mexico.

And now DPS has a new tool in its arsenal to help battle.

These cartels.

Grand river in south Texas.

Places only a few hundred feet of separates Mexico for a few laughs it is very wrote him here and that's putting it.

-- -- Almost every single day smugglers trying to -- the -- -- -- drugs weapons and into our homeland the people that we go up against with the drug cartels they have unlimited monies that have unlimited firepower.

But these new 34 foot boats.

Posting 900 horsepower should help services determines.

As the drug cartels on the Mexican side get more and more brazen law enforcement has to be one step ahead of the game.

That's why these vessels are equipped with everything from bulletproof shields took fully automatic machine guns that can fire -- -- 900.

Rounds a minute.

It's very important for us to.

To be.

Performed better than -- -- -- -- dangerous down their soon there will be six of these shallow water interceptors out on patrol.

With a price tag of about 580000.

Dollars more of the money that came from.

DHS grants and also provided by the Texas legislature.

Pretty interest -- Casey thank you semites.

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