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| Texas Counties Start Charging Illegal Aliens With Child Endangerment, Trespass |
| 2021-06-02 |
| [THEEPOCHTIMES] The tens of thousands of illegal aliens that evade Border Patrol every month—hoping to slip undetected to large cities up north—are now being confronted by sheriffs who are starting to charge them for trespassing, evading arrest on foot, and endangering the life or health of a child. Seeing no solutions to the border crisis from the federal government, some counties are looking at all possible means to rein in the high-speed vehicle pursuits, trespassing, break-ins, vehicle thefts, and other crimes that are increasing in their communities. "I’m going to start here, locally. If we catch them, we’re going to start prosecuting these people that are trespassing on y’all’s property," Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe told an appreciative crowd in Brackettville, Texas, on May 22. "And whatever other legitimate charge we can stack on there to try to deter them from coming to Kinney County. We’re going to try to hold these people accountable." Neighboring Edwards County is doing the same. Coe said his county would start charging for trespassing on June 1. He provided ranchers with a form that would authorize the sheriff to file charges on their behalf if someone is caught on their property—saving the rancher from coming into town to press charges every time a trespasser is caught. For many local ranchers, it’s a daily occurrence. Coe said the sheriff’s office recently filed child endangerment charges against a woman who bailed out of a vehicle that had been pulled over by a deputy. The woman grabbed her 7-year-old child and ran into the scrub without food or water. The deputy caught her and the child and then called the sheriff to ask what she should do with them. "And I said, ’Now’s the time to start,'" Coe told The Epoch Times. "Let’s file charges against her for child endangerment based on the fact that she ran out of the car, she had no bags, no nothing with her, no food, no water for that kid, 7 years old. You’ve seen the weather down here, some days it’s 90 degrees, 110 degrees. What was she planning on doing with that child in the brush with no food and no water?" The woman and child were turned over to Border Patrol, while the sheriff’s office will present the child endangerment case to a grand jury to decide if it’s a valid case for prosecution, known as a true bill. "If they ’true bill’ it, then we’ll put a warrant out for her arrest, and wherever she turns up, we’ll go get her and bring her back," Coe said. "If we do arrest her, and she gets sentenced to a year or six months, whatever the case may be, if she ever tries to file for some type of assistance here, or become a citizen ... that’d be a check mark against her. "Some type of consequence has to be there." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Edwards County: West northwest of San Antonio. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-02 08:25 |
| #2 Is Texas reading RANTBURG? Because a week or so ago we were discussing. Why weren't the parents of these illegal foot-hold arriving kids being arrested for Clear Child Endangerment ? Note: While crossing the USA Border is a violation of US Federal Law. Every State, not just Southern Border States, can still enforce any State law that a US Citizen or a NON-Citizen Illegals violates, down to littering. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-02 05:56 |
| #1 I suppose that prosecuting them for being in the country illegally is a bridge too far. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-02 01:16 |