Maybe You Can Mess With Texas
Criminals Escape Deportation by the Hundreds
"Bayron Orlando Euceda, an illegal immigrant from
Honduras, did not serve a day in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Houston girl. Instead, a Harris County judge sentenced the 21-year-old to eight years deferred adjudication, a form of probation. A sticky note on his plea agreement reads, 'Best interest of victim,'" the Houston Chronicle reports. "A Houston Chronicle investigation found 330 cases involving defendants sentenced to some form of probation in Harris County -- despite admitting to the jailer upon their arrest that they were in the country illegally. At least 44 of those cases involved defendants who later had their probation revoked and were sent to prison or who now have outstanding arrest warrants, the investigation found."
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