Billboards have gone up in Texas offering free legal help to illegal migrants, according to social media posts by former President Donald Trump and others.
In posts on Truth Social and X, the former president wrote: "Kamala is now running billboards near the Border advertising FREE Legal Services for Illegal Alien Criminals. When I win, the billboards are coming down, and the Migrant Gangs are going home!"
Trump's X post retweeted a post from the National Border Patrol Council, the official union of the U.S. Border Patrol. That posting depicts one of the billboards, which says, "Your brother in immigration custody has rights, we're here to help." It lists a web address for the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Border Patrol union said in its X post, "This DHS billboard (supported by Border Czar Harris) will only encourage and incentivize illegal immigration and the abuse of the asylum system to continue. This leads to record numbers of illegal aliens pouring across the border into our communities with little to no vetting. PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL STOP THE INVASION! h/t @BillMelugin_"
The post links to the account of a Fox News correspondent who regularly reports from the border in Texas.
Newsmax reached out to DHS for comment.
In response to the report, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Fox: "The news that DHS is using taxpayer money to launch billboards advocating ‘rights' for individuals in ‘immigration custody' should be alarming because it's a preview of the legal arguments that radical progressive democrats will use to argue against deportation of the millions dumped in America by Biden-Harris-Mayorkas."
Added Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas: "Time and again, we've seen DHS put an open borders agenda ahead of its mission to safeguard American families. Whether it's FEMA splurging hundreds of millions of dollars on migrant housing or OIDO running ads like this, our government is hemorrhaging money on the wrong priorities. It's time for Congress to pull the plug on programs like these."
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Kate McManus is a New Jersey-based Newsmax writer who's spent more than two decades as a journalist.
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