US EditionAs ICE Ramps up Deportations, Texas Prosecutors Say They’re Losing Key Witnesses in Criminal Cases
- A man was indicted for assaulting Manuel Chairez-Montes, but Chairez-Montes was deported before he could testify against Adan Yanez Porras, who was charged with aggravated assault.
- District Attorney James Montoya noted that immigrants in Texas fear deportation and avoid police, impacting crime reporting.
- Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare stated that ICE raids have affected several criminal cases, leading to deportations of victims and witnesses.
- Teare's office launched a program to issue identification cards to undocumented crime witnesses to protect them from deportation during legal proceedings.
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Prosecutors losing witnesses to ICE deportations
In West Texas, a man was indicted in September for assaulting Manuel Chairez-Montes, fracturing the left side of his face. But before District Attorney Sarah Stogner could take the case to trial, Chairez-Montes, who was undocumented, was deported to Mexico.
Protection of witnesses under immigrant status has become difficult, making it impossible to resolve some trials
As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases
District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, deported or too scared to come to court.
Early Tuesday morning, another convicted criminal was apparently deported to Afghanistan. This was reported by Focus magazine, citing its own sources. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Afghan man had been sentenced to prison terms multiple times in Bavaria, including for intentional bodily harm. German authorities handed the man over to local officials in Kabul on Tuesday. "Deportations to Afghanistan should be carried out r…
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