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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.
“Well, they had declined any type of medical help,” Coe said. “So I can’t let them walk the streets. I can’t say, ‘Hey, go, be free.’ Because I still have to protect the Constitution and protect the people in the county.”
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Coe took the migrants, three of whom were male and one of whom was female, into his truck and drove them to Eagle Pass, Texas, where Coe dropped them off at the port of entry between the United States and Mexico, he said. He described his action as “the exception rather than the rule” and does not know if there will be any legal ramifications for his actions.
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.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised Coe’s decision to drive the immigrants to the border personally when asked about it during a Wednesday press conference in Eagle Pass.
“I applaud all of our sheriffs for having to respond in unprecedented conditions,” Abbott said. “And that’s causing all of us to use unprecedented action. And so whether it’s doing what that sheriff in Kinney County is doing, or what we’re doing, such as turning back more than 20,000 people, we all have our own tools and strategies that we use to either turn back or to return people across the border.”
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Texas authorities found a total of 46 dead migrants in the back of a commercial truck parked roughly 3 miles southwest of downtown San Antonio on Monday night. By Tuesday afternoon, city officials said the death toll had risen to 51, including 39 men and 12 women.
The Kinney County Sheriff’s Office has not responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
