Texas Sheriffs Join Forces to Tackle Cartel, Border Crime

Border Patrol agents take into custody several illegal immigrants who were being smuggled from the U.S.–Mexico border to San Antonio, in Brackettville, Texas, on Aug. 26, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Cowboy hats filled a local barbecue restaurant in Brackettville last week as Texas sheriffs convened in a border county that’s being clobbered by human smuggling.

The sheriffs, all from non-border counties, were responding to a call for help from Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe.