Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered state police to resume inspecting trucks entering Texas from Mexico after 53 migrants died in a tractor-trailer...
, saying the truck carrying Mexican and Central American migrants who died wasn’t inspected by Border Patrol agents because that federal agency lacks sufficient manpower.crossing deserts or clambering into the back of trucks as temperatures soar will keep rising if Biden doesn’t act, Abbott warned.up for reelection this year
On Wednesday, Abbott said he was ordering the Texas Department of Public Safety to create additional truck checkpoints at the Texas-Mexico border and to immediately begin inspecting incoming, semitrailer trucks. But the stepped-up safety inspections, which were in addition to other inspections by the federal authorities,
Migrant caravans are “disbanding to some extent,” but that doesn’t mean numbers of illegal crossings won’t keep rising, he said. The Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is “ground zero” for illegal crossings, the governor said.Also, DPS will form two “strike teams,” each consisting of 20 troopers, to “detect, deter and apprehend” unauthorized immigrants, he said.
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