The deaths of eight people in a crash during a border pursuit has renewed criticism that the chases are too fast and have gone on for too long.
The white Honda Civic sped down Highway 57, a rural two-lane corridor that reaches the U.S.-Mexico border, after a Texas sheriff's deputy tried pulling over the car and gave chase when it didn't stop. High-speed pursuits of migrants and suspected smugglers have become routine in Texas. But Wednesday's chase came to one of the deadliest endings in recent years: a head-on crash that killed eight people, including Honduran citizens and two residents of Georgia.
The crash is under investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's sprawling border mission known as Operation Lone Star. The department did not immediately provide figures on high-speed pursuits. But Director Steve McCraw did not dispute that his own troopers have been involved in thousands of chases the last two years. A pursuit can be called off, McCraw said, if “it becomes an unreasonable risk to the public or yourself.
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