Border Patrol makes many arrests deep in the heart of Texas

Austin American-Statesman by Jeremy Schwartz

Critics call interior arrests unlawful; agency might be curbing their use.

Most Texans probably think of the Border Patrol as doing what the agency’s name suggests: interrupting illegal activity along the line separating the U.S. from Mexico. Yet over the last decade, agents have regularly made arrests deep inside Texas, according to an American-Statesman investigation into the little-known realm of the Border Patrol’s interior enforcement operations.