’My kids were almost taken waiting for the school bus’: America’s border war | Texas dispatch

In her Texas home just metres from the US southern border, Amber Duncan has felt the impact of the illegal migration crisis first hand. Her own husband, who came to America without the correct papers, was deported back to Mexico in 2018. Now she must make the journey across Eagle Pass’s International Bridge once a week to meet him. Last year, her children were almost scooped up by border officials, who confused them for illegal migrants while she was waiting for their school bus. “Good thing I was out here,” she told The Telegraph from the front of her home. “I’m always out here, by the door, watching. It’s scary.” Ms Duncan is just one of the thousands of residents who live their daily lives next to a city park that has become a militarised zone under the Texas governor’s “Operation Lone Star” – a crackdown on illegal crossings that has sparked a political row back in Washington. For some, the only solution is a second term for Donald Trump. The former president visi