Texas/Mexico Border Security Update

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY 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 Border Security Threat Matrix Enterprises Activities Tools Cartels Crimes Against People Vehicles Gulf Cartel Violent Crimes Cars Los Zetas Murder Trucks / Containers Assassinations Sinaloa Cartel (CGO) Boats Torture Juarez Cartel (VCF) Beheadings Aircraft 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 Scouts Texas Syndicate Infrastructure destruction Sensors Tango Blast Infrastructure denial Monitors Tri-City Bombers Cyber attacks 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 Terrorists Radiological Nuclear Lodging/Storage Al Qaeda and Sunni Terrorist Toxic Industrial Chemicals Safe Houses Hamas Stash/Warehouses Hezbollah Threat Threat Corridors Major Conflict States (Red) 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. 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. 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”

- Generally receive $5,000 - $50,000 for murder, Rosalio Reta depending on their role and target 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. 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 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 Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009

Across from McAllen, TX. Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009 Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009 Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009 Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009 Reynosa Shootout: February 17-18, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009

Across from Brownsville, TX. Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Matamoros Shootout: September 4, 2009 Michoacan: September 2006

Terror Tactics Horizon City, Texas Kidnapping: September 2009 Juarez: September 2009

Across from El Paso Juarez: October 2009 Juarez: January 2010

Teen birthday party massacre 16 killed, 12 injured Vehicle Borne IED 15 Jul 2010 Juarez, Mexico Texas Response…. Operation RIO GRANDE

Border Operation Characteristics Dallam Sherman Hansford Ochiltree Lipscomb • 5 Border Sectors / 1 Corridor Hartley 287Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill • 8-24 Days in Duration Oldham Potter Carson Gray Wheeler June –October 2006 • June 2 – October 8, 2006 Deaf Smith40 Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth $9.7m • Local, State, Federal Parmer Castro Swisher27 Briscoe Hall Childress Hardeman

Bailey Lamb Hale Floyd Motley Cottle Wilbarger • Intelligence Based Operation EL 84PASO Foard Wichita Clay Montague Lamar Cooke Cochran Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens King Knox Baylor Archer 287 Grayson Fannin Red River Bowie

Delta Franklin 35 Titus Yoakum Terry Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall Haskell Throckmorton Young Denton Jack Wise Morris Collin Hunt Hopkins Operation BIG Cass Camp Rockwall Rains30 Wood Marion Gaines Dawson87BENDBorden 84Scurry Fisher Jones Shackelford Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Tarrant Dallas Upshur Van Zandt Kaufman Dona Ana Harrison Gregg Hood Johnson35W Ellis Smith Andrews Martin Howard Mitchell Nolan Taylor Callahan Eastland 20 Erath Henderson 20 Somervell Panola Luna 35E Rusk Operation DEL RIO Navarro Hill Comanche Bosque Cherokee Loving Winkler a Midland Glasscock Sterling Coke Runnels Coleman Anderson El Paso Brown Shelby Freestone Hamilton Nacogdoches McLennan Hidalgo Ward Mills Limestone San Augustine Hudspeth Culberson Crane 87 Upton Reagan Tom Green Coryell Houston Concho Leon 20 Irion Sabine Reeves Falls Angelina McCulloch San Saba Lampasas 35 Operation 10 Bell 45 Trinity Robertson Jasper Madison Pecos Newton Schleicher Menard Pecos Burnet Milam CORRIDORPolk Tyler Walker Jeff Davis 10 Crockett Mason Williamson Operation DEL RIO Llano Brazos San Jacinto TBSOC Grimes Sutton Kimble Burleson Hardin Blanco Travis Lee Montgomery June 2-27, 2006 Gillespie Terrell Washington Liberty Orange Bastrop Hays Presidio Kerr Waller Edwards Val Verde Kendall Austin Jefferson Fayette Harris Operation LAREDO Brewster Real Comal Caldwell Bandera 10 Chambers Colorado July 8-20, 2006 Guadalupe Fort Bend Bexar Gonzales 59 Galveston Kinney Uvalde Medina Lavaca Wharton Wilson Brazoria Operation EL PASO DeWitt Atascosa Karnes Jackson Matagorda Zavala Frio 37 Maverick Victoria August 3-17, 2006 35 Goliad Calhoun

Dimmit La Salle Bee Refugio McMullen Live Oak Operation BIG BEND 77Aransas

San Patricio Jim Wells August 17-30, 2006 Webb Nueces Duval 281 Operation VALLEY STAR Kleberg Operation LAREDO Operation VALLEY Zapata Jim Hogg Brooks September 8-22, 2006 Kenedy 77 STAR

Starr Operation CORRIDOR Willacy Hidalgo October 1-8, 2006 Cameron Operation WRANGLER

$6,043,937 Jan. – Apr. 2007

Began January 2007 SOs throughout all participating counties Operation WRANGLER Resources

Texas DPS (Night) Law Enforcement Agencies 4 X Helicopters 90 Sheriff Departments ICE Texas CAP (Day) 138 Police Departments US Postal Service DPS THP National Park Service 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 3 X Helicopters 23 X Helicopters • Local Law Enforcement 3 X Fixed Wing 18 X Fixed Wing - 1854 Personnel, 512 Vehicles 8 X Patrol Boats 17 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) Texas Military Forces (Ground Forces) - 604 personnel , 154 vehicles Total Forces – 2311 (Operation JUMP START Total: 6894 personnel, and WRANGLER) Operation JUMP START – 1707 Guardsmen 2200 vehicles - 644 (Armed Border Security) 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 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 BORDER STAR • Additional boots on the Wal ker ground (overtime) Guadalu Border pe • Rapid re-direction of Operations resources and assets • Deployment of technology 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 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 Coastal Bend Karnes CO SO Laredo Laredo PD CBP Gonzales CO SO CBP Pearsall PD EPIC DeWitt CO EPIC Dilly PD HIDTA Lavaca CO SO DPS Freer PD USCG Refugio CO SO Dallam Sherman Hansford Ochiltree Lipscomb TPWD Frio PD NPS Jackson CO SO Operation TMF Hartley Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill DPS Victoria CO SO 287 Duval CO SO TPWD Calhoun CO SO Oldham Potter Carson Gray Wheeler Frio CO SO TMF Jim Wells CO SO Jim Hogg CO SO Nueces CO SO Kleberg CO SO Border Star Deaf Smith Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth 40 La Salle CO SO Live Oak CO SO Aransas CO SO Webb CO SO Parmer Castro Swisher Briscoe Hall Childress San Patricio CO SO McMullen CO SO 27 Zapata CO SO Participants Hardeman Bee CO SO Corpus Christi PD Bailey Lamb Hale Floyd Motley Cottle Wilbarger 84 Foard Wichita Goliad CO SO Kingsville PD

Clay 46 Texas Counties Montague Lamar El Campo PD Cooke Cochran Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens King Knox Baylor Archer Grayson Fannin Red River 287 Bowie Victoria PD

Delta Franklin

Denton Titus Yoakum Terry Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall Haskell Throckmorton Young 35 Morris RGV 38 Local Police Departments Jack Wise Collin Seguin PD Hunt Hopkins Cass Camp CBP Rockwall Rains30 Marion Grant Gaines Dawson Borden 848 Scurry Fisher Jones Shackelford Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Tarrant Dallas Wood Upshur EPIC 87 Van Zandt Kaufman Harrison 4 Gregg Hood Otero HIDTA Dona Ana Johnson Ellis Smith Andrews Martin Howard Mitchell Nolan Taylor Callahan Eastland 35W 20 Erath Henderson 20 Somervell Panola NPS Rusk 35E Navarro Luna Hill DPS Comanche Bosque Cherokee Loving Winkler Ector Midland Glasscock Sterling Coke Anderson El Paso Runnels Coleman Brown Shelby

Hamilton Freestone Nacogdoches TPWD Hidalgo McLennan Mills Limestone San Augustine Hudspeth Culberson Ward Crane 87 TMF Upton Reagan Tom Green Coryell Houston Concho Leon Irion Sabine Reeves20 Falls Angelina McCulloch San Saba Lampasas Starr CO SO 35 Trinity El Paso 10 Bell Jasper Robertson 45 Madison Schleicher Menard Newton Hidalgo CO SO Pecos Burnet Milam Polk Tyler Walker Jeff Davis Crockett Mason 10 Llano Williamson Brazos San Jacinto Cameron CO SO Grimes CBP Sutton Kimble Burleson Hardin Willacy CO SO Blanco Travis Lee Montgomery Gillespie EPIC Terrell Washington Liberty Orange Bastrop Kenedy CO SO Presidio Kerr Hays Waller HIDTA Val Verde Edwards Kendall Austin Jefferson Fayette Harris Brooks CO SO Brewster Comal Caldwell DPS Real Bandera 10 Chambers Colorado Rio Grande City PD Big Bend Guadalupe Fort Bend TPWD Bexar Gonzales Galveston Kinney Uvalde Medina Lavaca 59 Edinburg PD Wharton TMF Wilson Brazoria McAllen PD Del Rio DeWitt Culberson CO SO Atascosa Karnes Jackson Matagorda Zavala Frio Maverick 37 Pharr PD CBP Victoria Doña Ana CO (NM) SO Goliad 35 Harlingen PD CBP EPIC Calhoun EL Paso CO SO Dimmit La Salle Bee Refugio McMullen Live Hidalgo PD EPIC HIDTA Oak Grant CO (NM) SO 77Aransas Hidalgo CO Cons Pct 1 HIDTA NPS San Patricio Hidalgo CO (NM) SO Jim Webb Reeves CO SO Wells Nueces NPS DPS Duval Hudspeth CO SO 281 Brownsville PD DPS TPWD Kleberg Coastal Bend Luna CO (NM) SO Laredo La Joya PD TPWD TMF Otero CO (NM) SO Zapata Jim Hogg Brooks La Grulla PD TMF Val Verde CO SO Kenedy Anthony PD 77 Mercedes PD Jeff Davis CO SO Uvalde CO SO El Paso PD Starr Mission PD Presidio CO SO Kinney CO SO Willacy Horizon City PD Hidalgo Pearsall PD Brewster CO SO Zavala CO SO Cameron Socorro PD Raymondville PD Pecos CO SO Maverick CO SO Ysleta Tribal PD Roma PD Terrell CO SO Dimmit CO SO San Benito PD Fort Stockton PD Real CO SO Rio Grande Valley Sullivan PD Alpine PD; Presidio PD Edwards CO SO Weslaco PD Marfa PD; Pecos PD Del Rio PD; Eagle Pass PD Unified Command BORDER STAR Unified Decision-Making Body

Office of Border County Police USCG TxMF TxDPS Field TPWD TxDOT Operations Patrol Sheriffs Depts

Unified Staffing Body Analyze intelligence, Determine trends, Joint Operations Develop recommendations, and Intelligence Center Prepare plans and directives

Operational Direction Reports

Unified Executing Body

Complementary Complementary Ground Air Remote Marine Federal Private Operations Operations Operations Operations Operations Operations

Border: BP / OFO CBP Air & Marine TPWD TPWD EPIC BNSF

County: SOs DPS Air Rangers CBP Air & Marine HIDTA Union Pacific

Highway: DPS CAP Tick Riders USCG NPS FedEx

Municipal: PDs TX NG USBP Police Departments FBI UPS

ABTPA TF USCG NPS USBP USPS Tick Riders Impact from April 2006 – December 2009

Marijuana = 3,956,337 lbs

Cocaine = 49,863 lbs

Heroin = 693 lbs

Meth = 3,031 lbs Total Street Value $4,912,509,555

Cash = $105,053,805 IA Referrals to BP: 42,436 Way Forward 2010-2011

$116 million from 81st Texas Legislature will enable: • Continuation of Border Star patrol operations Operation BORDER STAR Wal • Multi-agency gang ker

intelligence section in the Guadalu Border pe Texas Fusion Center Operations • Increased resources for gang investigations and prosecutions • Additional local, DPS, TPWD, Texas Military Forces patrol resources Contingency Plans Each of the six Texas border security sectors has developed a contingency plan to address the potential for CONPLAN BORDER STAR Cross-Border Violence spillover violence into our CONPLAN 09-01 state, which is defined as January 2009 violent acts against Texans to include extortion, assault, kidnapping and murder as a direct or indirect result of the criminal enterprise activities of the Mexican organized crime cartels and their associates. DPS Aviation Dallam Sherman Hansford Ochiltree Lipscomb Dallas Hartley 287Moore Hutchinson Roberts Hemphill Midland 5 Pilots

Amarillo Oldham Potter Carson Gray Wheeler 4 Pilots Single Engine Airplane 2 Pilots Single Engine Airplane Helicopter Deaf Smith 40 Randall Armstrong Donley Collingsworth 1 TFO Helicopter Lubbock Helicopter Parmer Castro Swisher27 Briscoe Hall Childress Waco Hardeman

4 Pilots Bailey Lamb Hale Floyd Motley Cottle Wilbarger 84 Foard Wichita 2 Pilots

Single Engine Airplane Clay Montague Lamar Helicopter Cooke Cochran Hockley Lubbock Crosby Dickens King Knox Baylor Archer 287 Grayson Fannin Red River Helicopter Bowie

Delta Franklin Denton35 Titus Yoakum Terry Lynn Garza Kent Stonewall Haskell Throckmorton Young Jack Wise Collin Hunt Hopkins Morris Cass Camp Rockwall Rains30 Grant Wood Marion Gaines Dawson87 Borden 84Scurry Fisher Jones Shackelford Stephens Palo Pinto Parker Tarrant Dallas Upshur Van Zandt Austin Kaufman Harrison Gregg Dona Ana Otero Hood Johnson35W Ellis Smith 7 Pilots, 1 TFO Andrews Martin Howard Mitchell Nolan Taylor Callahan Eastland 20 Erath Henderson 20 Somervell Panola Luna 35E Rusk Navarro Single Engine Airplane Hill

Comanche Bosque Cherokee Loving Winkler Ector Midland Glasscock Sterling Coke Runnels Coleman Anderson El Paso Brown Shelby Twin Engine Airplane Hidalgo Freestone Hamilton Nacogdoches McLennan Ward Mills Limestone San Augustine Hudspeth Culberson Crane 87 Upton Reagan Tom Green Coryell Houston Helicopter Concho Leon 20 Irion Sabine Reeves Falls Angelina McCulloch San Saba Lampasas El Paso 35 Trinity 10 Bell Robertson 45 Jasper Madison Newton Schleicher Menard Pecos Burnet Milam Polk Tyler Walker Jeff Davis Crockett Mason Williamson 10 Llano Brazos San Jacinto Grimes Sutton Kimble Burleson Hardin El Paso Blanco Travis Lee Montgomery Gillespie Terrell Washington Liberty Orange Bastrop 2 Pilots Kerr Hays Presidio Waller Edwards Val Verde Kendall Austin Jefferson Fayette Harris Brewster Real Comal Caldwell 1 TFO Bandera 10 Chambers Colorado Guadalupe Fort Bend Houston Gonzales Helicopter Bexar 59 Galveston Kinney Uvalde Medina Lavaca Wharton Wilson Brazoria 4 Pilots

DeWitt

Jackson Del Rio Atascosa Karnes Matagorda 1 TFO Frio 37 Big Bend Zavala Maverick Victoria 35 Goliad Single Engine Airplane Calhoun Alpine Dimmit La Salle Bee Refugio McMullen Live Oak Helicopter 2 Pilots Del Rio 77Aransas San Patricio

Jim Wells Webb DPS Aviation Resources: 2 Pilots Nueces Coastal Bend 1 TFO Duval 281 Personnel: Helicopter 1 TFO Laredo Kleberg San Antonio

•46 Pilots Helicopter Zapata 4 Pilots Jim Hogg Brooks •12 Tactical Flight Officers Kenedy77 1 TFO

Starr Willacy Single Engine Airplane Laredo Hidalgo Corpus Christi Assets: Cameron Helicopter 2 Pilots 2 Pilots •13 AS-350 helicopters 1 TFO •1 EC-145 twin-engine helicopter 1 TFO Helicopter Rio Grande ValleyHelicopter (only police helicopter of its kind McAllen in the U.S.) 4 Pilots •7 single-engine airplanes 1 TFO, Airplane •1 twin-engine airplane Helicopter EC-145 Helicopter Cost: $9,049,178 AS-350 (A-Star) Helicopter Cost: $2,980,430 TxMAP Common Operational Picture Technology