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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Neelam Bohra and Sneha Dey

Feds demand Texas stop blocking Border Patrol agents access to border


The Biden Administration has demanded Texas authorities stop blocking federal Border Patrol agents’ full access to part of the U.S. border with Mexico in a cease and desist letter sent to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Last Wednesday, Texas troopers took control over Eagle Pass’s 47-acre Shelby Park along the Rio Grande, denying federal Border Patrol agents entry to the park. On Friday evening, a woman and two children drowned trying to cross and two others were rescued by Mexican authorities.

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