Illegal immigrants charged in violent stampede released by judge; DA wants ruling reversed

The El Paso territory attorney connected Thursday said his bureau volition entreaty a judge’s ruling that dismissed riot charges against hundreds of amerciable immigrants who surged past troops successful Texas and forced their mode deeper into the U.S.

Authorities arrested much than 200 amerciable immigrants connected authorities rioting charges successful the March 21 incident successful which a radical of predominantly big antheral migrants pushed done concertina ligament acceptable up on the borderline with Mexico.

Footage of the incidental went viral and fueled an ongoing quality betwixt Texas and the Biden medication astir however to grip the ongoing situation astatine the border. 

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A radical of implicit 100 migrants attempting to participate the U.S. illegally rushed a borderline partition March 21, 2024. In the process, the migrants knocked down Texas National Guardsmen earlier they are halted by the borderline wall. (James Breeden for New York Post/Mega)

But a region tribunal justice dismissed 211 cases astatine a proceeding Wednesday, saying that due procedures were not followed successful respect to an bid transferring jurisdiction to his court, the El Paso Times reported. The justice said his hands were tied connected the matter.

"If I don't person jurisdiction," the justice said, "there's thing I tin bash connected these cases" but disregard them, according to the Times.

In a property league Thursday, District Attorney Bill Hicks said his bureau disagreed with the ruling and intended to appeal.

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"We argued that it was due and proper, and we consciousness that precise strongly, and we consciousness that … it was done appropriately and that his bid is an improper order," helium said. "We person intentions of appealing his bid to the Court of Appeals.

"It is not a bully order. Because of that, and due to the fact that we consciousness that the instrumentality is connected our side, we person each volition of appealing his dismissal orders."

A radical of implicit 100 migrants attempting to participate the U.S. illegally rushed a borderline partition March 21, 2024, knocking down Texas National Guardsmen earlier they were halted by the borderline wall. (James Breeden for New York Post/Mega)

The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested the 214 migrants and issued warrants for 2 others. The radical arrested was made up of men and women from Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has antecedently said it is enforcing consequences for amerciable introduction arsenic ICE prioritizes nationalist information and nationalist information threats for deportation.

"There are consequences to crossing the borderline illegally, and CBP continues to enforce United States migration laws," CBP said successful a connection aft the incident. "Individuals and families without a ineligible ground to stay successful the U.S. are taxable to removal and are taxable to a minimum five-year barroom connected reapplying for admittance and imaginable transgression prosecution if they subsequently re-enter without authorization. No 1 should judge the lies of smugglers; individuals and families without a ineligible ground to stay successful the United States volition beryllium removed."

But Venezuela has stopped receiving nonstop deportation flights of its nationals. Venezuelans tin inactive beryllium sent to Mexico, but officials person told Fox that galore of them past re-enter arsenic "gotaways."

Hicks said immoderate of the migrants person a transgression history, but galore bash not. He besides said the migrants are being released if they person not been already. 

He said that erstwhile they are, they volition beryllium released to Border Patrol for processing.

"Some whitethorn suffice for asylum, immoderate whitethorn not. Some whitethorn beryllium deported, immoderate whitethorn not," helium said.

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He said if the tribunal of appeals reverses the judge’s order, caller warrants for those migrants’ arrests volition beryllium issued.

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