Fronteras: One of the busiest areas for the U.S. Border Patrol is the Rio Grande Valley sector. We speak to a border patrol agent from there about everything from Central American migrants, border security to armed militias complicating things on the Texas border. Also, we hear about a summer camp in Texas near College Station, where children learn how to hunt. Campers learn about safety and hunt animals on private exotic game ranches.
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Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Agent on Central American Migrants, Border Security & Militias
The U.S. Border Patrol has a lot to deal with: from thousands of young immigrants arriving at the border, to arms and drug trafficking, human trafficking, and people in distress from the heat while trying to cross the border.
We wondered what it's like to be a border agent these days.
To give us a unique perspective from the ground we turn to border agent and public information officer Joe Gutierrez. He works in the Rio Grande Valley sector (they refer to it as the RGV sector), one of the busiest in the nation.
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But some housing developments are banning the roof-top solar panels, saying they’re unsightly. From the News 88.7 Energy and Environment Desk, Dave Fehling found a neighborhood in Houston where some homeowners can’t imagine life without solar power.
Students are heading back to school, many of them taking with them memories from summer camp. There are all kinds of camps, on the program today we hear about a Christian camp that introduces young Texans to hunting culture.
The story is part of “Gun Wars,” an investigation of gun rights and regulations in America. This is a project of the Carnegie-Knight News 21 program. It’s a national multimedia reporting project by journalism students and graduates from 16 universities this year.
Visual journalist Jim Tuttle is one of the News 21 fellows. His assignment sent him to a camp at a private exotic game ranch near College Station. It was his first time in Texas and he wasn’t sure what to expect.
Tuttle says campers ranged in age from about ten to 15 years old. A lot of the counselors were college age.
