After the ‘Del Rio News-Herald’ shuttered last year, Frank Lopez Jr., who broadcasts as “US Border Patriot,” found a national audience.
No county in Texas has arrested more migrants under the governor’s plan to crack down on the border, and it’s created a judicial crisis.
The Del Rio–raised law enforcement official chatted with ‘Texas Monthly’ about the situation in his hometown and immigration enforcement across the state.
Barriers reminiscent of the Trump era are sprouting up in Hidalgo County.
Local officials in South Texas are scrambling to figure out what the governor is building in their communities.
Governor Greg Abbott has sent a thousand state cops into Texas border communities to combat smuggling. But many locals complain that they are more of a nuisance than an effective crime-fighting force.
“Ladders and walls go together like peas and carrots,” says one McAllen Border Patrol agent.
After Josefina De León’s daughter went missing in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas in 2012, she was determined to find her. Seven years later, she hasn’t given up.
The border cities of Tamaulipas brace themselves for the wave of deportees Donald Trump has promised to send their way.
