Female Smugglers Set Free as Border Town Lacks Jail Space for Women

A Kinney County sheriff’s deputy arrests a woman for smuggling an illegal alien from the U.S.–Mexico border, through Kinney County, Texas, on Sept. 10, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Women who are caught smuggling illegal aliens through Texas’s Kinney County are essentially being given a long-term get-out-of jail-free card since the county jail can’t house women.

And many of those caught smuggling know that.