How the Migrant Surge Played a Role in the Uvalde School Shooting

Paula Bolyard : Jul 20, 2022
PJ Media

...“The frequency of these 'bailout'-related alarms—around 50 of them between February and May of 2022—contributed to a diminished sense of vigilance about responding to security alerts.” -from the report by TX House of Representatives

[PJMedia.com] On Sunday, a Texas House of Representatives committee released its preliminary report on the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old attacker killed 19 students and two teachers, and wounded 17 others on May 24. (Screengrab image)

While much of the report focuses on law-enforcement failures and mistakes by school staff, the committee also pointed to the role of illegal immigration in the failed response to the shooting.

"Another factor contributing to relaxed vigilance on campus was the frequency of security alerts and campus lockdowns resulting from a recent rise of 'bailouts'—the term used in border communities for the increasingly frequent occurrence of human traffickers trying to outrun the police, usually ending with the smuggler crashing the vehicle and the passengers fleeing in all directions," the committee wrote. "The frequency of these 'bailout'-related alarms—around 50 of them between February and May of 2022—contributed to a diminished sense of vigilance about responding to security alerts."

Indeed, lockdowns happened frequently at Robb Elementary "due to its proximity to the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 90"...

...Unfortunately, the Raptor alert system used by the school to communicate threats was not able to differentiate between a bailout and something much more dangerous, like a school shooter on campus, leading "teachers and administrators to respond to all alerts with less urgency—when they heard the sound of an alert, many assumed that it was another bailout"...

...Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin [stated] at a July 5 press conference that bailouts put students in danger with an influx of "pedophiles, convicted murderers, drug dealers," and "gang members" crossing the border...Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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