I said: But I
ordered him to prison. How does he end up, just in a matter of a few
months, being back in my court for another felony? And he explained that, about 3 months after I sent him to prison, he
was picked up by the immigration authorities at the prison, taken to
the border, ordered to walk across the border, and he did. And he said
that he waited until they drove away, and then he walked back across
the border and ended up back in Smith County, Texas. So, on that occasion, I thought: Man, they are going to only deport
the man if I send him to prison. And we don't have a wall. President
Clinton certainly was not enforcing the border sufficiently during
those years, so I thought: I still have to protect people here; so I
will send him to a lockdown felony substance abuse facility where he is
in a lockdown, he can't go anywhere, a confined place, with others who
are either drug addicts or alcoholics. I got a report 3 or 4 months after he went into the felony punishment
for substance abuse defendants that the immigration authorities at the
time picked him up and took him to the border. And if it happened the
way that he was deported the time before, as he told me, they told him
to walk across the border, he did, he waited until the border
officials, the immigration officials, left, and then he came right back
across the border immediately. The only thing I don't know is where he ended up, if he continued to
follow the trend and continued coming back into the country. A law
enforcement officer said: Well, one thing for sure, he knows he doesn't
want to come back to your court because he is going to get locked up
one way or another. So, in all likelihood, after the immigration
officials drove away, he probably came back and went to somebody else's
county where he heard they didn't have a judge like me who would
enforce the law. But it put people at risk, and Americans have known that. And
Candidate Trump promised to do something about it, and he sure is
trying, but he needs Congress' help.
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