Two different groups surged through an El Paso border gate. An El Paso judge has twice thrown out the resulting criminal charges.
A group of migrants walk to an El Paso County Sheriff transport van to be taken to processing on March 20, 2024. State troopers have responded to efforts by migrants to rush through border gates en masse by charging hundreds of migrants with rioting.EL PASO — Twice in recent months, hundreds of migrants have rushed a border gate in El Paso in an effort to push past state troopers and National Guard and get into the U.S.
El Paso District Attorney Bill Hicks has defended his move and says that it is about maintaining law and order, not anything to do with an individual’s legal status. Gov.to the job after the previous district attorney left office following an effort to oust her amid allegations of incompetence and official misconduct.
Hicks said he is not prosecuting the cases to make any political statement about immigration. He said he is doing so because anyone that “breaks the laws in our community, we will file charges and make sure that that person faces justice in our courtrooms.” DPS did not respond to a request for comment about the latest case dismissals. A spokesperson earlier referred inquiries to Hicks’ office.
Following the dismissals, Hicks presented the same cases to a grand jury, which indicted the migrants on the same charges. That led federal authorities to send the migrants back to county custody so they could be served warrants. But the future of the new cases remains unclear after this week’s dismissal of the cases against the other migrant group.
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