EAGLE PASS, Texas—The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will be setting up random highway checkpoints to inspect trucks following the deaths of 53 illegal immigrants who were being smuggled in the back of a tractor-trailer earlier this week.
“We’ve seen increased brazenness by cartels that feel empowered, because we do not have a federal government that’s pushing back against those cartels and their illegal activity,” Gov. Greg Abbott said at a June 29 press conference in Eagle Pass, one of the busiest regions for illegal border crossings in the country.
