Fewer Smugglers Detained as Small Border Counties Run Out of Jail Space

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Illegal border apprehensions hit 180,034 in May, a 21-year monthly high, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics.
51% : Instead, Border Patrol took custody to process the migrants and return them to Mexico.
45% : The Texas Department of Criminal Justice told The Epoch Times on June 28 that no illegal immigrants had been placed in the facility yet.
43% : Law enforcement is catching at least two loaded smuggling vehicles per day through Uvalde.
42% : Law enforcement authorities are releasing human smugglers with a citation rather than arresting them as counties struggle with a critical shortage in jail space.
42% : As law enforcement pursued the driver during the initial traffic stop, the driver stopped the vehicle and all of the occupants fled across the road, climbed a game fence onto a ranch, and attempted to evade arrest.
36% : Small counties aren't set up for the overwhelming increase in cross-border crime, and smugglers who are here illegally are often passed to Border Patrol to be repatriated without being charged.
35% : So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol has apprehended almost half a million illegal aliens entering the state of Texas from Mexico.
30% : On June 25, law enforcement gave Border Patrol custody of a driver who was allegedly smuggling nine illegal immigrants, because the Kinney County jail was full.

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