Using Horsepower on the Southern Border

Horses still prove to be the best vehicles for chasing criminals and drug runners in harsh terrain

Border Patrol agents on their mustangs are training to become horse patrol agents in Edinburg, Texas, on May 26, 2017. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times

EDINBURG, Texas—“It’s not just a horse, it’s a mustang.”

Ruben Garcia, horse patrol coordinator for the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, is unbridled in his praise of the horses employed on the Texas border.