Thread: I visited a Texas courtroom where dozens of chained immigrants were prosecuted under

Originally Posted by Text Driving Is Deadly

Article says 17 of the guilty were fined $10 and not sentenced to jail since they had no criminal history though i don't know how the judge knows that.

I'm sure the authorities did a records check. None of us can know if they had a record in their country, but if they did in this country, their fingerprints would reveal that.

Originally Posted by Text Driving Is Deadly

Anyway - that is not much punishment.

True! But then you can't get blood out of a turnip!