Texas claims border islands used by Mexican cartels, asks Trump admin to secure and defend

EXCLUSIVE: They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the Lone Star State itself is growing a bit. 

Texas has claimed two cartel-infested islands along the Rio Grande as part of an ongoing state effort to eliminate safe havens used by Mexican drug organizations. 

In a letter to border czar Tom Homan, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham requested that the Trump administration secure and defend Beaver Island, a 20.3-arce island in Starr County, Texas, and the Roma Islands. 

Both...