TEXAS TROOPERS ARE IN MORE AND MORE LETHAL CAR CHASES

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TEXAS TROOPERS ARE IN MORE AND MORE LETHAL CAR CHASES

AN UNREMARKED COST OF GREATER BORDER SECURITY

A RED CAR weaves in and out of traffic on a highway in El Paso, Texas.
It’s June 2022 and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers
are in hot pursuit. They are chasing someone they suspect of smuggling
migrants across the southern border. The high-speed pursuit, which
reaches 100mph (160kph), eventually runs parallel to the border wall.
As the troopers drive closer they seem to hit the car. It flips and
lands upside down. One passenger flies through a window; the others
crawl out. The DPS radio traffic is mostly unintelligible except for
one word. “Shit.”