Trooper Tip Leads to a Parking Lot Stop Texas Department of Public Safety troopers say a tip led them to a red Chevy Colorado parked at a Del Rio hotel on May 10. A trooper approached the truck as part of a human smuggling investigation, and the driver took off on foot. He did not get far. Officers caught him nearby and identified him as Wilber Adonay Serrano Ruiz of Houston. Four People Were Found in the Truck Troopers say they found four people from Mexico hiding in the vehicle. Border Patrol took custody of them after the stop. Ruiz was charged with human smuggling. It is the kind of case that reminds everyone that smugglers do not exactly operate on the honor system. They rely on speed, confusion, and the hope that no one is looking too closely at a hotel parking lot. Texas DPS Keeps Seeing the Same Pattern Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez posted video of the arrest and pointed to another stop earlier in the month in Maverick County, where passengers jumped from a Jeep during a traffic stop. The pattern is familiar enough: a tip, a stop, a dash for the door, and then a…

High court showdown on birthright citizenshipPresident Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to back his executive order ending automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to people here illegally and to others without lawful permanent resident status. The case reached the justices after arguments in April, and it turns on whether the 14th Amendment has been read too broadly for too long. Trump says the law was meant for the children of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War, not as a free pass for illegal entry or, as he put it, for foreign nationals who come here planning ahead for a passport. The Court now has a familiar job, sorting constitutional text from decades of policy drift that often gets dressed up as settled wisdom.Trump says the system invites abuseTrump argued that the current approach rewards people who enter the country unlawfully and encourages what he sees as birth tourism. He said the United States is an outlier because no other country, in his view, grants citizenship in the same way. That claim is part policy argument and part warning label, since immigration rules tend to become a magnet the minute lawmakers act surprised that people…