2 Texas Sheriffs Refuse To Transport Migrants For Cbp We Just Don T Have Any Resources
CBP reportedly asked Brooks County Sheriff Urbino “Benny” Martinez and Nueces County Sheriff John Hooper for support transporting migrants into the country amid a surge of arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border. “We just don’t have any resources,” Martinez told Newsweek, explaining why he refused Border Patrol’s request to use the department’s only van to move migrants. “[U.S. Customs and Border Protection] was asking if we would assist him in moving immigrants who are in the country illegally from the border area up into Kleberg and the Corpus Christi area, Nueces County, and I advised him that the Nueces County Sheriff’s Office would not be assisting in that,” Hooper told KHOU 11....