Tag Archives: checkpoint
The Things They Left Behind
When migrants die in South Texas, the objects they leave behind hold clues to their identities.
In the fall of 2013, Observer reporter Melissa del Bosque and I visited Baylor University’s forensics lab, one of several Texas labs that handles the remains ...Read More
To Save Lives, Close the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint
Despite being a death trap for hundreds of migrants, Border Patrol is planning on expanding a secondary checkpoint near Falfurrias in Brooks County....Read More
National Guard Deployed to Save Lives in Rural Brooks County
The National Guard is deployed to Brooks County, Texas, where hundreds of migrants have died from heat exposure and thirst....Read More
In Brownsville, Citizens Punished for Standing Up to Border Patrol
Omar Figueredo declined to answer questions from Border Patrol agents at the Brownsville airport. What happened next should worry all citizens....Read More
Checkpoint Carlitos: Why Did DPS Deploy Checkpoints in the Valley?
DPS has offered little in the way of justification for its big border incursion, and we’re left with many questions about DPS’ experiment with checkpoints. ...Read More
DPS Checkpoints Create Fear, Havoc in the Rio Grande Valley
The Texas Department of Public Safety was warned during a legislative hearing in 2011 that they would “run afoul of the courts” if driver’s license and in...Read More
Postcards: Many Borders to Cross
If you’re like me—white, adult, clean-shaven and short-haired—then your danger-courting celebrity-bust fantasies are unlikely to bear fruit....Read More
Border Patrol Takes ‘No’ for an Answer at Internal Checkpoints
Are you legally obligated to answer questions at Border Patrol checkpoints? Here's what legal experts have to say. ...Read More