The Border Week: Texas Habeas Filings Level Off After Record Growth, "El Mayo" Zambada Gets Life and a $15 Billion Forfeiture, $2.7 Million in Cocaine Rides a Beverage Load Through Pharr, and Houston Protests Mount Over the Salgado Araujo Killing

Detained immigrants filed 1,399 new habeas corpus petitions in the federal courts of the Western and Southern Districts of Texas in June, 1.8 percent fewer than the 1,424 they filed in May, according to case records compiled by Habeas Dockets

CBP officers at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility seized $2.78 million in cocaine built into a tractor-trailer manifested as bottled beverages, the third large narcotics load pulled from commercial freight at the same crossing in a month, a pattern that tracks with CBP data showing Texas ports of entry account for most of the state's seized drug weight.