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    New Mexico County Declares Local Emergency Over Abandoned Border Patrol Checkpoints

    Six Border Patrol checkpoints in southern New Mexico and Texas are temporarily closed as agents were diverted to the border. Local officials worry illegal narcotics are flowing northward unchecked.
    by John Burnett Apr 26, 2019 3 minutes
    Couy Griffin, chairman of the Otero County Board of Commissioners, stands at the Border Patrol's abandoned U.S. Route 70 checkpoint in New Mexico. The Border Patrol checkpoints have been shutdown in the El Paso Sector as agents have been diverted to deal with an influx of immigrants.

    For people familiar with the lonesome highways of far West Texas and New Mexico, it's an unusual sight: The ubiquitous Border Patrol checkpoints are all closed. Last month, Homeland Security shifted the checkpoint agents to the border to help process the crush of migrant asylum-seekers.

    Otero County, N.M., is so alarmed by the possibility of illegal narcotics flowing north unchecked that it has declared a local state of emergency.

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