Texas will increase checkpoints for trucks crossing from Mexico after migrant smuggling deaths
By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune
Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:43PM
Four people have been arrested and charged in connection with the tragedy in San Antonio where 53 migrants were found dead in a trailer, according to the DOJ.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas will add new checkpoints for trucks entering the state from Mexico after over 50 migrants died in connection with an abandoned tractor-trailer found in San Antonio.
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The Department of Public Safety "will create and implement a checkpoint strategy beginning immediately where they will begin targeting trucks like the one that was used where these people perished," Abbott said during a news conference in Eagle Pass.
DPS directer Steve McCraw suggested the checkpoints would be along "smuggling corridors" that connect ports of entry from Mexico to major Texas cities like San Antonio and Houston. Abbott declined to say where exactly the additional checkpoints will be, saying the state wanted to "surprise the cartels and the smugglers."
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