Thousands of men have been arrested on trespassing charges under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown. A new lawsuit claims the attempt to skirt federal immigration authority is unconstitutional
. Wednesday’s filing also alleges men have been held for days or weeks after they post bond, their charge is dropped or their sentence is complete.
Neither Abbott’s office nor the Kinney County sheriff immediately responded to questions about the lawsuit Thursday morning. DPS and TDCJ said they would not comment on pending litigation. But a prison system spokesperson said the agency is “complying with time frames for release” of migrants. Abbott has previously defended the trespassing initiative as “fully constitutional” and a way to counter a sharp rise in illegal immigration that he blames on President Joe Biden.Abbott launched his multibillion-dollar Operation Lone Star last March, billing it as a way to combat drug trafficking and human smuggling.
Through February, more than 2,800 men were arrested only for allegedly trespassing on private property —. The large majority of trespassing arrests have occurred in only two border counties where DPS troopers got consent from some local landowners to arrest men on their property. State police have arrested both asylum-seekers who approached law enforcement and men trying to cross the border undetected for the crime of being on private property without permission. Police are directed to only arrest men traveling alone on such charges, turning families, women and children to immigration authorities instead.After their arrests, thousands of men have been jailed in one of two state prisons retooled to hold Abbott’s migrant inmates.
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