Justice Department launches probe into Texas' treatment of migrants at the border

The U.S. Department of Justice, along with other federal agencies, are looking into Texas' treatment of migrants along the border after disturbing allegations of human rights violations, the Express-News reports. "The department is aware of the troubling reports, and we are actively working with [the Department of Homeland Security] and other relevant agencies to assess the situation," Xochitl Hinojosa, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, told the daily. Word of the probe comes following a Hearst Newspapers report that a Texas Department of Public Safety agent alleged that troopers deployed along the Rio Grande as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star were instructed to push migrants injured by barbed wire back into the river.