By Russell Contreras|The Associated Press – DallasNews.com – Photo: Russell Contreras|The Associated Press.
Photo: The privately funded U.S. Border Patrol Museum chronicles the evolution of the law enforcement agency.
A museum dedicated to the history of the U.S. Border Patrol seeks to provide a complex view of a once unknown agency that rose from obscurity to become one of the nation’s most powerful arms of law enforcement. The privately funded museum in El Paso, Texas, attempts to piece together its history as the nation’s views on immigration, travel and border security have changed. Using photos, artifacts, newspaper clippings and even movie posters, the U.S. Border Patrol Museum explores the story from the agency’s formation — to fight Chinese immigration and enforce Prohibition — to its current role at a time of massive migration, cartel drug smuggling and political skirmishes.
