{"id":25143,"date":"2021-10-25T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25143"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:47:16","slug":"national-guard-arrests-illegal-aliens-texas-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/10\/25\/national-guard-arrests-illegal-aliens-texas-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Orders National Guard to Arrest Illegal Aliens  (But It\u2019s Not as Dramatic as It Sounds)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Kinney County, Texas, declared a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/news\/special-reports\/at-the-border\/kinney-co-officials-issue-disaster-declaration-calling-on-state-leaders-for-help\/273-1ac31fd5-c37d-4221-8675-d201ab40f6d3\" target=\"_blank\">border disaster<\/a> in April, law enforcement officers there have arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/defendourborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">more than 1,000 illegal aliens<\/a>, mainly on trespassing charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/09\/02\/texas-immigration-arrests-jail-kinney-county\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kinney<\/a> is far and away the Lone Star leader in jailing migrants, officials estimate they&#8217;ve stopped less than 5 percent of aliens who have passed through the rural county (pop. 3,600). Amid the onslaught, <a href=\"https:\/\/100percentfedup.com\/breaking-kinney-county-texas-sheriff-brad-coe-is-deputizing-citizens-to-protect-county-from-illegal-alien-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Sheriff Brad Coe<\/a> is deputizing Kinney County residents to bolster his thin blue line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stepping up efforts elsewhere, Gov. Greg Abbott has authorized <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Historic-United-States-First-National-Guard-Soldiers-Start-Arresting-Illegal-Migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">3,000 National Guard troops\u00a0<\/a>to apprehend migrants who cross border fences erected by the state. The fencing along 142 parcels of private ranchlands serves as a tripwire to nab illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas law officers started arresting migrants on trespassing and other state and local charges over the summer as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/14\/texas-national-guard-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Operation Lone Star<\/a>. But so far only Kinney County has been serious about prosecuting them. Of 826 migrants housed in two designated state detention centers, Kinney accounted for 710. The remaining 116 came from just three other small counties. The larger border counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Webb and El Paso have not sent any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since little state fencing\nhas been installed in those more urbanized jurisdictions, National Guard\ninvolvement there figures to be slight. Additionally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Troops\nonly detain adult males, allowing all others, including unaccompanied children,\nto pass through.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Local\nprosecutors retain sole discretion on whether to press charges. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In Val Verde County, next\ndoor to Kinney, Prosecutor David Martinez said that out of 231 migrant arrests there\nsince July, he rejected 105 because, in his judgment, none caused harm to the\nlandowner. He cut plea deals with 50 others, and recommended that none get jail\ntime beyond what they\u2019d already spent in custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bear in mind that Val Verde is one of just four counties that has put <em>any <\/em>migrants into the state detention centers. As a result, some 1,200 beds remain empty at the two facilities, even as Texas led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/migrant-encounters-southern-border-dipped-under-200000-in-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">record-setting year<\/a> for Border Patrol encounters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, the Biden\nadministration decides what to do with arrestees after they\u2019re released. Though\nthe Department of Homeland Security has not provided statistics, Martinez, a\nDemocrat, says the migrants are routinely paroled into the U.S. to pursue\nasylum claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While National Guard\ndeployments (costing Texas taxpayers roughly $1 million a month) and state\nfencing (scheduled to extend across 300 miles of borderlands) represent\nenhanced levels of deterrence, the state\u2019s efforts, however well intentioned,\namount to little more than speed bumps on illegal aliens\u2019 road into this\ncountry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Kinney County, Texas, declared a border disaster in April, law enforcement officers there have arrested more than 1,000 illegal aliens, mainly on trespassing charges. Though Kinney is far and away the Lone Star leader in jailing migrants, officials estimate they&#8217;ve stopped less than 5 percent of aliens who have passed through the rural county<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/10\/25\/national-guard-arrests-illegal-aliens-texas-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":25144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[1323,1524,1826,12055],"yst_prominent_words":[2019,2043,3528,2071,2509,4668,12108,2013,2008,11537,11901,3494,2188,2016,7921,2373,12420,12419,2167,12418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25145,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions\/25145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25143"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}