Reporters from both organizations spent a day documenting the reality on the border. Here’s a summary of what they found.
A private border wall that extends nearly three miles stands in Mission, on Friday morning, Aug. 9, 2024., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.on Texas’ border with Mexico to measure the impact of a dramatic drop in migrant crossings.
But conditions on the border often shift more rapidly than political rhetoric, and no one would have known how quiet it was listening that night to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump at campaign rallies.Arrests for illegal crossingsacross the southern border from December to July as well as in the Border Patrol’s five Texas-based sectors. More enforcement by Mexican authorities within their own borders and new U.S.
In Eagle Pass, which has been one of the focal points of Texas’ unprecedented border security push, large groups of migrants that were commonplace were rarely seen on the riverbanks. In McAllen, two Border Patrol agents scanned fields near the Rio Grande for nearly five hours without encountering a single migrant.Nearly 3 million trucks entered the United States through Laredo last year, roughly triple the number in 1996.
The largest seizures of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine occur at border crossings in Arizona and California, but they also come through Laredo. The Drug Enforcement Administration says a faction of the Sinaloa cartel called “Los Chapitos” also favors an El Paso crossing for smuggling narcotics.Shelby Park in Eagle Pass isTexas’ unprecedented, $11-billion challenge to the long-standing principle that immigration policy is the federal government’s sole domain.
A big piece of Lone Star is nearly 45,000 arrests and nearly 40,000 felony charges, often for trespassing on private property.
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