States May Arrest Smuggled Migrants

President Biden’s decision to effectively open the southern border to the rest of the world has been made even worse by federal judges. States like Texas have been told by these judges that their solution to protecting themselves from the disease, drug trafficking, and likely future terrorism making its way from foreign lands into their neighborhoods is not appropriate.

In his op-ed, States May Arrest Smuggled Migrants, TPPF’s Vice President of Federal Affairs, John Hostettler, brings to light a solution to the border crisis. By enforcing provisions of the federal anti-human smuggling statute, state and local law enforcement have legitimate authority to arrest migrants and their smugglers – commonly referred to as “coyotes.” In addition, the same statute effectively allows prosecution of parents, in absentia, who have placed their young children in the hands of these cartels to have them abandoned in the wilderness north of the Rio Grande. Not only is this authority necessary to end human smuggling across the border, it also thwarts human traffickers who convert smuggled clients into trafficked victims.

Sincerely,

Ken Oliver

Senior Director of Right on Immigration