The county is the most populous to embrace the Republican governor’s “catch-and-jail” policy to arrest people accused of crossing the border illegally for state crimes, including trespassing.
most of the cases brought to him because the migrants were seeking asylum, however, state troopers stopped arrests in the county in November and focused on making arrests in the more conservative Kinney County.into Jim Hogg County, between Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. The state popped up a new tent center to begin processing more arrestees. On Wednesday, 57 of the nearly 900 men held in the state prisons for Operation Lone Star had been arrested in Jim Hogg County, the prison reported.
The Democratic county judge said some ranchers have already signed agreements with DPS to allow troopers to arrest anyone on their property for trespassing. Growing up on ranches, Tijerina said he always encountered people crossing the border illegally onto their property and “for the most part, almost all of them do not mean us any harm.”
In the Laredo region, like all of the U.S. southern border, Border Patrol agents encountered significantly more people illegally crossing the border last year, according. Immigration officials reported more than twice as many encounters in the region in fiscal year 2021 versus 2020. But the increase was nowhere near the uptick seen in the Del Rio sector, where Abbott’s arrests first began, which saw more than six times as many encounters during the same time in a less populous region.
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