Along the border in Texas, high speed car chases where migrants are injured or killed are now commonplace. (TPRNews)
Debris is strewn across a road near the border city of Del Rio, Texas after a collision Monday, March 15, 2021. Eight people in a pickup truck loaded with immigrants were killed when the vehicle collided with an SUV following a police chase, authorities said. In Texas along the border, high speed car chases where migrants are injured or killed are now commonplace.
Sheriff Brad Coe of Kinney County and his department, along with Texas Department of Public Safety officers, are responsible for more arrests of migrants than anywhere else in the state. Gage Brown is an artist and lifelong resident of Brackettville, the county seat of Kinney County. She said the high-speed chases through town happen at all hours of the day and night."Sometimes I like to sleep outside in a hammock," she said."And I can't do that without being woken up multiple times a night because in the middle of the night, there will be cars speeding down the highway.
State and local law enforcement are not allowed to enforce immigration laws, but one couldn’t tell that by their actions. "What we're seeing in Kinney County and sometimes in other places as well is kind of getting around that by saying, 'Okay, well, what we're going to do is we're going to enforce state law.' Things like trespassing and other things like that because they know they can't enforce federal immigration law," she said.
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