Texas Sheriffs Overwhelmed by Spillover Crime From Border Surge
Texas Sheriffs Overwhelmed by Spillover Crime From Border Surge
BY CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON
April 29, 2021
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MISSION, Texas—Sheriff Pinky Gonzales is charged with public safety in Refugio County, Texas, which sits 180 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border. The county is home to about 8,000 residents and 13 deputies.
“We’re a rural town, we’ve got a limited budget, and we’re just overwhelmed with this,” he said about the effects of the border surge, during a press conference at Anzalduas Park on the U.S.–Mexico border on April 28.
“We have never seen anything like this. We have dealt with these illegal [aliens] coming across, coming through our town—now, they’re stealing vehicles. We just got through working a case where we had 20 of them bail out.”
A bailout is when a vehicle full of illegal immigrants stops and they flee in different directions to avoid capture.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/texas-sheriffs-overwhelmed-spillover-crime-border-surge-384547/
