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Border Patrol Shifts Resources Because of Sharp Increase of Immigrant Smugglers in Texas
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The never-ending battle to crack down on immigrant smugglers has shifted to southernmost Texas where federal agents are seeing an alarming influx of activity, Fox News reports. Border Patrol leaders are shifting resources from western states after a marked increase of arrests from Oct. 1 to May 17, when more than 148,000…