The Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) has for months been documenting damages reported by the state's farmers that they attribute to migrants traveling north after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Farmers in Texas are calling on the federal government to help them recover from the damages their properties and crops suffered as a result of the recent uptick in illegal border crossings.
After the bureau led more than 50 other state and national farming organizations in calling for a federal response last month, its president is asking for PresidentThe New York Post "When there's a disaster of some kind—people lose property or lose their home, or lose part of their property—there's places that you can go apply and say, 'OK, this is what I lost,'" Boening said."We don't have a direct way to do it."
Border officials reported more than 188,000 encounters between border officials and migrants who tried to cross into the U.S. in June, a 5 percent increase in reported encounters over the previous month, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week.
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