Thread: TEXAS STATE TROOPER CALLS BORDER PATROL ON PASSENGER

Texas State Trooper Calls Border Patrol On Passenger While His Five-Month-Old Daughter Sits In the Back, Video Shows

Texas state troopers routinely hand over undocumented immigrants to Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after being stopped for having tinted windows, improperly placed license plates, and other minor traffic offenses, according to a new report by Debbie Nathan for The Intercept.

The Texas Highway Patrol, which operates underneath the Department of Public Safety, does not maintain a total number of immigrants handed over to Border Patrol.

However, in collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Nathan was able to obtain dash cam videos that show immigrants being detained for minor traffic violations only to be handed over to immigration authorities soon after patrol or ICE, according to Nathan.

One such video features a Texas trooper stopping a woman driver, where he proceeds to ask if the man sitting next to her in the front is the father of the toddler sitting in the back.

After telling him that the baby is their five-month-old daughter, the trooper then asks if the man has a visa. After saying that he doesn't, the trooper calls for Border Patrol to head to the scene.

The dash cam then shows the woman sobbing, pleading the officer not to call Border Patrol.
"They're going to take him, sir. They're taking everybody! Please, Jesus please don't take him!," she wails.

In the past, these kinds of traffic offenses were mostly met with a ticket or a fine, according to Nathan. Now, state troopers are hand-delivering immigrants to federal agents—even if they weren’t the ones driving.

“In recent years, and especially since Donald Trump was elected president, the Texas Highway Patrol…has developed a well-oiled deportation machine,” Nathan writes.

“Passengers and pedestrians who weren’t even driving are also taken into custody. Caught in the Texas deportation pipeline, immigrants’ lives are damaged or ruined, along with those of their children, many of whom were born and raised in the U.S.”

According to Nathan, that "pipeline" has its roots in state legislation enacted in 2008 that prohibited Texas' Department of Motor Vehicles from issuing driver'slicenses to anyone that cannot prove they were living in the United States withproper authorization.

That means that immigrants inTexas--especially those living in small communities with little to no public transportation--"are now forced to drive without a license."

Texas has also increased its expenditure on highway patrols in cities and towns near the U.S.-Mexico border, where they are more likely to stop undocumented immigrants given the high propensity of migrants living there.

This "surge" of state troopers started in the aftermath of 9/11 when former Texas Gov. Rick Perry began requesting federal dollars for border enforcement to protect the country against drug smugglers and terrorists.

By 2008, according to Nathan, "the Texas legislature began allocating state money for 'border security'...from $110 million for the biennium 2008 to 2009, to $800 million for 2008 and 2009."

Most of these monies went to the DPS, which translated into more troopers patrolling communities close to the border.

Until recently, Border Patrol would usually not deport immigrants who were charged with petty traffic violations, had clean criminal records and had U.S.-born children. This policy--widely regarded as "catch and release"--also allowed DPS officers in Texas the discretion to determine when they would call Border Patrol over to a routine traffic stop.

That changed in November 2016, when Steve McCraw, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, who oversees the state's Highway Patrol, instructed his troopers to cease the "catch and release" policy.

"When probable cause exists that someone illegally crossed the border,” he wrote in an email obtained by Nathan. “We have an obligation to refer those incidents to the U.S. Border Patrol, or … Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

This shift in policy in Texas mirrored what has occurred under Trump's first year in office:

During the fiscal year 2017,which ended on October 1, ICE arrested 143,470 immigrants, a 25 percent spike from last fiscal year. A large chunk of that increase comes from the rise in "interior removals," or arrests of people detained away from the border, which jumped from 65,000 to nearly 82,000 from FY 2016.

http://www.newsweek.com/texas-troopers-deportation-undocumented-immigrants-743720

Does not matter if they are a passenger in a car, sitting on the couch in their home or having McDonald's! They are here ILLEGALLLY and should be handed over to ICE!

NO catch and release at the border

NO detention at the border

Deport every man, woman and child within 24 hours!

Why would they release them into the country...and then OUR troopers and police have to pick them up and deport them in the States?

As soon as they are apprehended at the border...process and fast track deport within 24 hours!

It is an endless revolving door!

END THE ANCHOR BABY SCAM NOW!

Illegals better start accepting reality, you can and ( finally!) will be deported when you are found. You have no rights, no claim to remaining here, you're gone. They have deluded themselves into believing they belong here, they DO NOT!

WE have the right to decide who comes here and who gets to stay. People who broke the law from day one and continue to break more laws every day are UNDESIRABLE. Save yourself the shame (although I don't think they have a hint of shame in their being) and the money, pack up and go back to where you came from.

Thank you Texas. Thank you Texas State Troopers. THIS is what every single law enforcement officer in our nation should be doing. You see 'em, you call ICE or Border Pastrol. Law enforcement wants citizens to "see something, say something", well, citizens want law enforcement to "see something, do something".

This wouldn't be happening if it weren't for Gov. Abbott. Greg Abbott has been doing a great job in attacking illegal immigration ever since he assumed the office of Governor. The buck literally stops with him and he recognizes it as witnessed by his many actions in dealing with the issue of illegal immigration in Texas.

“Passengers and pedestrians who weren’t even driving are also taken into custody. Caught in the Texas deportation pipeline, immigrants’ lives are damaged or ruined, along with those of their children, many of whom were born and raised in the U.S.”

Newsweek seems to be more concerned with people that chose to break our laws than they are with the impact on the people that pay for them.