Just like your local mall - the Kelsey Plant is extra busy as the holidays approach. The difference is that the visitors aren't buying gifts - they are hauling drugs on the back of slave labor (a.k.a. kidnapped migrants) around the Border Patrol checkpoint. The reason for this seasonal increase is harvest time for marijuana in Mexico. Bundles of narcotics are stored on the ExxonMobil property and then slave labor is brought in to haul the bundles. C'est la vie in the XOM AMI.
Yesterday, something didn't go according to plan. The handy dandy Starr County constable happened to be driving down 755 at the same time the muleros were turning into ExxonMobil's entrance to the Kelsey Plant. The sight of law enforcement no doubt spooked the muleros and they suddenly took off through the fence between the plant and Mr. Marshalls and began driving cross country heading north. They separated and one truck somehow ended up on the McGill Bros abandoned and the other one was found on fire on the south side of 755.
Most federal, state, and local law enforcement were pre-occupied at the time due to the raging gun battle in western Starr County. No one was interested in chasing the slave labor or finding the drugs.
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The Border checkpoint is a joke. Hoards of empty buses pass through and wait at the big gas/food plaza. 30 empty buses, just waiting for their passengers who are in the brush, by-passing the check point. This place was built in the middle of nowhere just for this purpose. They've got lots of business, that's for sure. Before this place was built, the buses waited at the road-side park farther down the road south.
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