UVALDE, Texas—Border Patrol has been forced to close down several highway checkpoints near the border to free up more agents to deal with the crisis unfolding under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas. The two highest-volume checkpoints now closed are on Highway 57 from Eagle Pass to San Antonio and Highway 90 from Del…

UVALDE, Texas—Border Patrol has been forced to close down several highway checkpoints near the border to free up more agents to deal with the crisis unfolding under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas. The two highest-volume checkpoints now closed are on Highway 57 from Eagle Pass to San Antonio and Highway 90 from Del…

A new law in Texas has removed a major barrier to prosecuting human smugglers, who are most often caught driving illegal aliens from the U.S.–Mexico border to larger cities. As of Sept. 1, prosecutors need not prove “pecuniary gain,” which was often the reason cases were thrown out. “We don’t have any way to track…

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe joked that his first pop-up driver’s license checkpoint on a rural road would be “boring.” Coe set up on a road that provides smugglers a way around a Border Patrol checkpoint that’s situated between the border and San Antonio. Less than 30 minutes in and with the third vehicle…