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| Subject: Highway robbery: Texas-sized increase in traffic tickets along Mexican border Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:43 pm | |
| A new border security approach promoted by the Texas Department of Public Safety has yielded at least one result: a bumper crop of traffic tickets.
Traffic stops in Starr and Hidalgo counties on the Texas-Mexico border accounted for nearly 8% of all traffic tickets issued in Texas in September, an analysis by The Dallas Morning News found. The analysis comes as the Department of Public Safety is preparing to ask the Texas Legislature for an unprecedented $1.1 billion in border security funding for the next two years.
The state began intensified border enforcement in 2014 in response to a surge of illegal immigration and cartel activity. Last year, the Legislature committed $800 million to back that enforcement campaign, including the hiring of 250 more state troopers to work the border.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-sized-increase-traffic-tickets-mexican-border-article-1.2889186 |
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