As Texas leaders prepare for the end of the Title 42 border policy, Kinney County offers a lens into the more aggressive tactics some border sheriffs have adopted even before the expected surge in the weeks ahead.
“I have to fight tooth and toenail to protect my ranchers and hunters,” Coe said from his office, where stacks of reports are piled next to a large-lettered study Bible and Donald Trump bumper stickers. He is worried that frustrations with migration will push the county’s tax base out.Kinney County sheriff’s deputies, Border Patrol and state highway officials respond to a vehicle chase that ended with a crash through a resident's backyard fence.
Kinney County Deputy Sheriff Liz Aguirre stopped a blue Mitsubishi with expired tags. She spotted two people slouched in a back seat. A 21-year-old San Antonio woman driving the car said the female passengers were her aunts. According to an arrest report, she told the deputy that both were lying down because they were taking a nap.She detained the driver. Inside the vehicle, deputies found two more suspected migrants crouched in the trunk.
The American Civil Liberties Union in Texas obtained documents describing a June incident in which the sheriff removed four men suspected of being smuggled from the country by driving them from a crash scene to a port of entry. County sheriffs do not have the authority to deport.When asked about the incident, Coe said the men had refused medical treatment but Border Patrol wasn’t willing to take them into custody without it.
“We are seeing some of the most dangerous legislation on the border being proposed in Austin,” Roberto Lopez, an organizer with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said. “It’s built on the invasion rhetoric Kinney advocates.”Roberto Mejía, 32, was arrested and charged with trespassing in Kinney County in October 2021.
Hill supports local and state law enforcement efforts, but he also wants to see immigration reform at the federal level. For all of Kinney County’s official bluster, many border residents here say they favor opening more legal pathways for people to enter the United States. But they also don’t want migrants coming through their lands without permission.Story continues below advertisementBrown has testified against Operation Lone Star at the legislature in Austin, where civil rights groups have been tracking the program’s alleged abuses.
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