CBP Setting the Table for Employee Vaxx Crackdown
Also: County Seeing Traffickers from as Far Away as Oklahoma
Good Morning,
News today from our anonymous sources in Customs and Border Protection, that the Mandarins in charge at the agency are setting the table to begin cracking down on employees that have not complied with orders to self-report their vaxx status on an internal website.
You may recall our dispatch about this last week. We take some pride in discovering that the always excellent Todd Bensman made it to press, confirming our information a day later. We’d call it a scoop, but you really can’t claim such with a sub-1000 person audience. In any event, give Bensman a click— he did a thorough job, also getting statements from anonymous agents describing their thoughts, reasons, and motivations in refusing to accept the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA prophylactics.
Find our earlier reporting here:
Sources tell us that emails were sent Monday (Nov. 15) to all CBP supervisors who had non-compliant subordinates, directing them to “counsel” their non-compliant employees in writing.
This is something of a Human Resources fiction— brass knuckles hidden inside of a velvet glove— the use of soft words like “counsel” to describe what is happening. The non-compliant employees are being given 5 more days to get with the program. Our sources say this basically marks the beginning of a paper trail that could lead to dismissals. We are also told that there is a procedure where supervisors can note where in some cases employees are non-compliant because they are out on leave.
Locally in Kinney County, some small matters to report that might be of interest to our subscribers. Firstly, news of a garden-variety arrest of a pair of accused traffickers on the highway last week.
Deputies arrested these men with a truckload of illegal aliens. What makes it worth bringing to your attention is the fact they’re from Oklahoma. As the economy continues to decline nationwide, it’s a sure bet that more and more people of all different stripes, from all kinds of different locations will wind up being recruited by the cartels to make pickups and deliveries for what’s promised to be easy cash.
It’s already very common for deputies and state troopers to find 17 year old kids recruited from border towns to drive. Of late, down-on-their-luck folks from San Antonio and the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex have also begun to feature on the arrest sheets. So far as we can recall here, Oklahoma has been the furthest any drivers have come. Typically the cartels are paying them something in the neighborhood of $2000 a load.
Our next photo comes from a local ranch— showing an intercepted “food drop.” Cartel employees and associates will slip onto ranches ahead of traveling groups, and leave supplies for the groups to find along their routes. In this case, ranch employees found one supply cache. You can see lunch meat, apples, and other food stuffs, that suggest they were expecting to be located by travelers and consumed quickly before spoiling.
Sadly, when and if too many food drops are missed, Coyotes will frequently abandon their charges and slip away— leaving them hungry and thirsty in the middle of nowhere. The Coyotes can usually travel faster alone. The last thing they want is for a crowd of hungry and thirsty paying customers to turn against them for lack of food and water. Whenever they realize they’ve been abandoned, the group will usually begin trying to find someone they can surrender to. If they’re lucky, they have a fence line they can follow, or some other landmark that will prevent wandering around in circles.
One wonders if it might not be better to leave the food drop as is, and notify Border Patrol or DPS of the location so that they can stake it out and collect intelligence on who is coming and going from it. A difficult decision to make.
Readers interested in the protest of orthodox Catholic faithful that we previewed last week can rest assured that we attended the rally out in front of the San Antonio Archdiocese. We are holding off publishing a formal write-up of the event, until after it appears in the Kinney County Post, which paid our food and fuel costs to attend.
You can see our earlier coverage here:
The main takeaway from the event is this: Folks aren’t happy with Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller. And, we confirmed with Father Clay Hunt, that his case is moving through the Church’s Canon Law process. It’s now out of the hands of officials in San Antonio, and is officially awaiting a hearing in Rome. It could be months or years before that happens, however. The new issue of the Kinney County Post should be on local newsstands by Thursday.
And finally, we’ve had a few reporters and other individuals with email addresses associated with various newsgathering organizations subscribe to the newsletter recently. Welcome all. Please bear in mind that any opinions expressed here are entirely our own, and are independent of Kinney County Government and its Employees. Any information disseminated here should be taken with a grain of salt, unless also accompanied by a jpeg of a formal press release, featuring the County Seal and all that jazz. Also— if there are any errors expressed here, it’s best to assume they are entirely our own as well. Our employment with the County began in mid-to-late October, as County officials began to get snowed in with Public Information requests.
We continue publishing this newsletter out of a feeling of obligation to some of our longtime subscribers, and also because we enjoy it. Is there a bit of an unspoken conflict in attempting to act as a journalist, while also operating as a Public Information Officer? Absolutely there is. However, these are strange times. And, this area is an absolute news desert, with a significant lack of local reporting. Readers are free to contact us in the comments, or in other avenues available on social media, but official communications related to County information are best handled at: kcsopublicinfo@co.kinney.tx.us