SAN ANTONIO — A Border Patrol checkpoint in Uvalde County will now carry the name James Ray Dominguez, a Border Patrol agent born in San Antonio who was killed by a passing car while clearing debris from the road in 2012.
The James R. Dominguez Memorial Act became law Wednesday, having been introduced by U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales and signed by President Joe Biden. A bipartisan cohort of congressional representatives from Texas cosponsored the bill, including Reps. Henry Cuellar, Colin Allred and Vicente Gonzalez.
"Agent Dominguez's legacy will live on," Gonzales, a Republican, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last month, when it passed in the Senate. "We are forever grateful for his service to our nation."
Dominguez was a Border Patrol agent for 12 years when he was fatally struck by a vehicle on July 19, 2012, the bill says. A husband and father to four children, he had stopped to remove debris from a section of Highway 90 near Cline.
A nearby checkpoint on Highway 90 just west of the Nueces River will now be officially referred to as the James R. Dominguez Border Patrol Checkpoint. The bill was first introduced last year in the House, passing in the lower chamber in May 2024 before the U.S. Senate OK'd it in November.
