It looks as if it might be unsafe to go out to an outdoor privy and have a comfortable relief without fear of arrest there. I cannot get too excited about these fine refinements of possible enforcement when I see what has been going on with the existing laws. with fully invested law enforcement officials. From Federal judges to district attorneys to marshals to Border Patrol and customs officials. I addressed this House during the closing hours. November 18. last year. about a situation. which. incidentally. still prevails. that allowed the district attorney of the western judicial district to permit four incarcerated aliens. who had been held for more than 10 months in the county jail of Bexar County. simply because he said they were needed as material witnesses in a prospective trial. even though the lawyers involved. including the district attorney. had agreed. in articles of agreement. that the physical presence of these witnesses was no longer needed. So what does the district attorney do? He releases four of these prisoners to the custody of the Border Patrol who then takes them 90 miles to Uvalde. TX. and leases them out to a rancher. One month later these four workers complain of maltreatment and of being cheated. the rancher called the Border Patrol and said "take them in. they are giving me trouble." The Border Patrol rearrested them. brought them back and placed them again in the county jail. The district attorney. in the meanwhile. has been rewarded by being appointed a district judge. and defies my protest. when I point out that not only was this a gross violation of human rights. but that it places our country In the position of some day being called to account before a world court of opinion. Right now. in the county jail of Bexar County. you have at least 100 such prisoners.
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