After the Border Patrol did not take four illegal immigrants into custody, a Texas sheriff decided to take them to the border himself.
Deputies from the Kinney County Sheriff’s Office had caught a suspected smuggling vehicle on a county road early Wednesday morning and transported one female immigrant to the hospital in Del Rio, Texas, for non-life-threatening injuries. The other four migrants declined medical treatment. Border Patrol agents told Sheriff Brad Coe they could only take the four uninjured immigrants into custody for processing if they had been checked medically first, Coe told the Epoch Times.
The driver of the suspected smuggling vehicle transporting the five migrants, a Mexican national wearing a cartel-related medallion, was taken into custody and is facing at least seven felony charges, Coe said.
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