A county court-at-law judge found no probable cause on Monday to continue holding 140 illegal aliens at the El Paso County Jail. They were detained on state riot charges.
These people are some of the illegal aliens who stampeded over the Texas border creating a border riot, overwhelming National Guard troops on March 21. They tore down razor wire along the Rio Grande River and rushed the border fence at Marker No. 36 in the Riverside area of El Paso’s Lower Valley. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested them. Most of them were male and from Venezuela.
On Easter Sunday, presiding Magistrate Judge Humberto Acosta ruled that hundreds of those arrested and detained could be released on their own recognizance during a bond hearing conducted by teleconference. The judge said that those with an immigration hold would remain in jail. Acosta justified his surprising action by…
