Border Crisis: Texas Governor Abbott’s Checkpoints Could Yield Results

Kinney County, Texas — Last week, Governor Greg Abbott directed Texas Department of Public Safety officers to start augmenting truck inspections at ports of entry with Mexico. This is leading to massive truck backups, as I reported earlier this week from the international bridge at Eagle Pass:

Abbott claims his DPS checks are meant to ensure the mechanical safety of vehicles and to prevent smuggling of human beings and illicit substances. “There may be Texans whose lives were saved” because dangerous vehicles were “taken out of operation” by DPS, he said. “Those dangerous vehicles, with dangerous brakes, could have run into a Texan walking across the road or driving down a road,” the governor said, defending his controversial policy.

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Kinney County, Texas — Last week, Governor Greg Abbott directed Texas Department of Public Safety officers to start augmenting truck inspections at ports of entry with Mexico. This is leading to massive truck backups, as I reported earlier this week from the international bridge at Eagle Pass:

Abbott claims his DPS checks are meant to ensure the mechanical safety of vehicles and to prevent smuggling of human beings and illicit substances. “There may be Texans whose lives were saved” because dangerous vehicles were “taken out of operation” by DPS, he said. “Those dangerous vehicles, with dangerous brakes, could have run into a Texan walking across the road or driving down a road,” the governor said, defending his controversial policy.