In Pursuit of a Secure Border: Small Texas County Leads Charge Against Border Crime

Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith in his office in Brackettville, Texas, on Oct. 29, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

KINNEY COUNTY, Texas—Charging an illegal immigrant with a misdemeanor such as criminal trespass sounds simple enough.

But throw 1,008 cases at a small county with a jail that has 14 spaces and a court system that usually handles six or seven cases per month—using Microsoft Word—and the wheels start to fall off.