Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that SA's police chief and others violated a state law forbidding cities from sheltering undocumented immigrants. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX KenPaxton Immigration Migrants Texas
in 2018, 11 months after a suspected human-smuggling incident made headlines on the city's East Side. In that incident, police found 12 suspected undocumented immigrants in the back of a tractor-trailer.
While SAPD officers arrested the driver on smuggling charges and contacted Homeland Security, city officials maintain that they couldn't get through to federal officials, according to the. The individuals found in the truck were subsequently released since detaining migrants is under the feds' jurisdiction
Paxton alleged that city officials disregarded Texas' GOP-championed Senate Bill 4, which requires local authorities to hand over undocumented migrants to federal agencies. The $300,000 settlement — covered by San Antonio's Self Insured Liability Fund — comes after the city had already spent nearly $6.4 million defending McManus,Still, the settlement represents a fraction of $150 million in penalties and attorney fees the city might have been on the hook for had it lost the court case, the station reports.
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