The complaint stems from an analysis of police reports on more than 350 trespassing arrests.
The ACLU says an analysis of police reports on more than 350 trespassing arrests made this summer under Operation Lone Star shows that a quarter of them were made with Border Patrol involvement.trespassing charges under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security operation
At least once, Texas Department of Public Safety officers never even saw the arrested migrants on the scene of the alleged trespassing, instead picking them up from federal agents at a gas station and taking them to jail, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas reported inThe ACLU of Texas argued that federal government officials should not be assisting Texas’ controversial “arrest-and-jail” approach by sending migrants off to face state charges instead of processing their immigration cases.
Dozens of migrants in the sample analysis were apprehended by Border Patrol agents who turned them over to DPS. “Border Patrol agents are currently instrumental to Texas’ effectuation of this program that engages in rampant civil rights abuses, that increases anti-immigrant system, and that attempts to supplant federal immigration policy,” the attorneys wrote in their complaint. “DHS should cease all collusion with state and local officials in trespass arrests, and transparently and publicly state a policy of non-collusion.
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