Immigrant rights advocates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against two South Texas sheriffs and two state prison wardens on behalf of four Mexican migrants, claiming they were held in prison for as long as six weeks after they served their sentences or had their trespassing charges dropped.

The lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the Texas Fair Defense Project and the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling, claims that thousands of other people were also detained longer than they should have been under Operation Lone Star, the border enforcement program Gov. Greg Abbott launched in 2021.

  • @Burn_The_Right
    8•9 months ago

    Alternative Headline: Conservatives are Xenophobes and Racists, Enjoy Oppressing the Vulnerable

  • @badbrainstorm
    1•9 months ago

    Tejas should get some kind of humanitarian award this year

    Edit: Are people really to dense to detect this is a smartass comment?!?

    • @Zombiepirate
      8•9 months ago

      I’ve found that you have to lay on the sarcasm extra thick to have a comment override Poe’s law these days.

      I kind of hate tagging things ‘/s,’ but I do get it, especially on the Internet where nuance is lost or people might not speak English as their first language.

      • @badbrainstorm
        1•9 months ago

        Sure, if you’re going to sugarcoat it I suppose. I see it as part of reading comprehension and nuanced language skills that the internet and text messages have understandably changed things, for better or worse. It is what it is. This one in particular bums me out, cause I’m badbrainstorm, and a super smartass. I even have my own Ali G type characters in my head that are rediculous af

        • @WolfyGamer29
          2•9 months ago

          Well, a lot of people who don’t have good reading comprehension tend to be neurodivergent people, especially autistic folk like myself. I tend to approach things with a benefit of the doubt attitude but I’m more or less “high functioning” and some people have an even harder time understanding social cues via text. I use /s just out of mindfullness of folk who struggle with those kinds of thing.

          • @badbrainstorm
            2•9 months ago

            Yeah, okay. I guess with all the xenobiotics and whatnot these things are becoming much more prevalent in society and I should be more understanding. Thanks

    • @KnightontheSun
      4•9 months ago

      I’ve noticed we still seem to need the /s for this.