EAGLE PASS, Texas — The patrol arrived around sunset and entered a stretch of rolling hills dense with cactus, sage and towering carrizo cane. The way into the property was an unlit, narrow dirt road pockmarked with potholes, near a hydroelectric power plant.
Texas Department of Public Safety officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents set off into the night and eventually came across Guatemalan and Mexican migrants who had crossed the border only hours before. A federal agent drove in with a pickup truck and loaded the migrants into the open bed.
Anthony Salas, a DPS special agent, later climbed in and perched on the truck’s roof to keep watch. The other officers walked behind the vehicle as it maneuvered over patchy dirt and then started up an incline.
