Texas sheriffs personally drive to deport four arrested illegal immigrants and choose given the current border crisis Insisted that there was no room for. ..
Kinney County Sheriff Bradkoh told The Epoch Timesthat immigrants were found after a suspected smuggling vehicle that his agent was tracking crashed on Wednesday morning. Told.
Five illegal immigrants were found in the car, including a woman who had to be taken to the hospital because of a life-threatening injury.
Sheriffs said border patrol agents had told him that only if they were first medically evaluated in the hospital could they catch the other four migrants.
"They refused any kind of medical assistance," Kor said of the four intact migrants.
"So I can't let them walk down the street. I can't say," Hey, go, be free. " Because I still have to keep the constitution and protect the people in the county.
He said, "To let them go, they are undocumented and unexplained, just have to go for policy-I couldn't do that. I added.
Kor puts them all in the sheriff's car and drives for an hour to the Eagle Pass, which has official access to Mexico. He said he did.
Sheriffs have dropped four migrants in the middle of the International Bridge.
A Mexican national driver wearing a cartel-backed insignia has been arrested and is currently charged with seven felony charges.
"It will be an exception, not a rule, but at the same time, if the border patrol does not join the group for some reason, I have no choice," Ko said.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott follows the latest trafficking tragedy of, which killed 53 migrants on a sultry truck in San Antonio. We welcomed Kor's move at a press conference on Wednesday.
"Applause to all sheriffs for having to deal with the unprecedented situation. And that's causing us all to behave unprecedentedly, "said Abbott.
"Therefore, whether we are doing what the Kinney County Sheriff is doing, or doing what we are doing, such as turning back more than 20,000 people, we Everyone has their own tools and strategies. Turn back or return people across borders. "
Ko said he wasn't sure if his actions would be legally impacted. However, he argued that local law enforcement agencies do not need to tie up much of that resource because of the ongoing border crisis.
Kinney County agents have already arrested 66 smugglers this month alone.
Immigrant encounters at the US border continue to soar to record highs, stunning 239,416 recorded last month, Customs and Border Protection Show the data.
The latest figures are for the fiscal year 2022 immigrant encounters totaling more than 1.5 million people .
