Prosecutor drops charges after migrants claim they were marched to private property, then arrested

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52% : Others who are convicted of trespassing are taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, having already served their 15-day state sentence.
51% : The Venezuelan man whose case was rejected by Martinez Monday is also expected to be transferred to CBP.
50% : Martinez and Etter, who represents the men, said the migrants told them the fleeing men had hopped over a small fence bordering the highway, but, when found, were zip-tied and escorted by law enforcement to another property and made to climb a fence.
47% : In Val Verde County, home to Del Rio, however, Martinez said the vast majority of the cases he tosses out are those in which he learns that the arrested migrant had credible asylum claims and was looking for law enforcement to turn themselves in.
46% : In the case of the 11 men who said they were escorted to another property and made to climb the fence onto a ranch, Martinez said he didn't have a report from Border Patrol officers, who reportedly initiated the stop and apprehended the men after they fled.
44% : Border Patrol reported on Tuesday that after more than a dozen men fled on foot from a highway traffic stop into private property, federal agents took custody of the driver and two other people, while DPS arrested the other 11 men.
43% : The couple was referred to Border Patrol.
42% : According to a DPS arrest affidavit, the men fled Border Patrol officers during an August traffic stop and jumped a fence onto a local ranch whose owner previously agreed for state police to arrest people for trespassing on the property.
41% : "I did not have any way to prove where these people were apprehended because we did not have a supplemental report from Border Patrol, so there was a lack of evidence," Martinez said.
41% : Martinez said he was told that Border Patrol led the men onto the other property, and DPS requested the men be brought back over the fence again where they were arrested.
35% : Without video evidence or a written report of the August incident from U.S. Border Patrol, Val Verde County Attorney David Martinez Monday dismissed the trespassing charges after the men had spent nearly two months in state prison.
27% : In a legislative hearing called out of concern over legal blunders in Abbott's arrest initiative, DPS Director Steve McCraw told lawmakers Monday that the people his officers arrest for criminal trespassing are trying to avoid law enforcement, not seek asylum.

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