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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Jolie McCullough and James Barragán

Texas Senate moves to create new immigration enforcement unit, allow state police to arrest for border crossings

Migrants carry supplies before crossing the Rio Grande River and into the U.S. from Mexico on Monday, May 8, 2023, in Juárez, Chihuahua. Several hundred migrants have been waiting on the U.S. side of the river to be picked up and processed by CBP.
Migrants carry supplies before crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. from Ciudad Juárez on May 8. (Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune)

The Texas Senate gave final approval Wednesday evening to the GOP’s priority immigration legislation, which would create a new state border police force.

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