Immigration Crackdown Strains Western District: Texas Brief

Immigration Crackdown Strains WDTX

President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has forced prosecutors to defend a flood of detention challenges—and in San Antonio, the US Attorney’s office is feeling the strain, Celine Castronuovo and Jacqueline Thomsen report.

A record 4,000 habeas petitions have been filed in the Western District of Texas since the start of Trump’s second term, more than 80% of them since January. That’s on top of the more than 11,000 criminal prosecutions tied to immigration filed in the district since the start of last year. Meanwhile, at least a dozen assistant US attorneys have left the office ...