Maverick County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sgt. Aaron Horta, EMT operators and Border Patrol officers carry a body out of a canal on June 28, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Texas is already policing the Mexican border − and will play an outsize role in any Trump plan to crack down on immigration

Enforcing immigration law at the border is the federal government’s role. But in Texas, that job has increasingly been taken on by the state. That shift may be key to Donald Trump’s border plans.

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