Texas will soon begin looking into whether Mexican cartels have attempted to build tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border to facilitate drug and human smuggling into state-owned land, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham directed her office on Monday to work with Customs and Border Protection to learn about signs of underground tunneling between the United States and Mexico, and to determine if there are signs of this activity.

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In a memo sent on Monday to the Texas GLO’s Chief Clerk Jennifer Jones and General Counsel Jeff Gordon, Buckingham called

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