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The plantation consisted of over 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields, a sugar mill, and a race track. [4] Through Southdown Plantation, the Minors were instrumental in introducing and sustaining the sugar industry in the area, and ensuring the survival of the crop by developing a variety of sugar cane that was resistant to mosaic disease. [8]
Border Patrol vehicle along a portion of the Mexico-United States border wall. After the September 11 attacks, the Customs Border Security Act of 2001 established United States Border Patrol interior checkpoints with some situated at the north end of the Rio Grande Valley. This allows for a second line of defense in the ever increasing subtlety ...
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has held numerous border security briefings at the park since state officials seized control of it. At one of them, he recently announced plans to build an 80-acre military ...
Levi Jordan (1793–1873), a Georgia-born planter, traveled in 1848 to Brazoria County, Texas, bringing with him twelve enslaved Black people. [3] Previously, Jordan had owned adjoining plantations on the Louisiana-Arkansas border (Union County, Arkansas) with his son-in-law, James Campbell McNeill, [2] however he was not as successful as he wanted to be.
Map of the Mexico–United States border wall in 2017 Border fence near El Paso, Texas Border fence between San Diego's border patrol offices in California, U.S. (left) and Tijuana, Mexico (right) The border wall along the Mexico–United States border is intended to reduce illegal immigration to the United States from Mexico. [1]
Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them ...
Border Patrol agents in southern Texas in 2013. The Border Patrol was created in 1924 with its primary mission to detect and prevent the illegal entry of immigrants into the U.S. Together with other law enforcement officers, the Border Patrol maintains the U.S.' borderlands—regulating the flow of legal immigration and goods while patrolling ...