In Texas, an immigration judge was arrested: he illegally transported people across the border

Timothy Daniel Japhet, a federal immigration judge, was arrested and charged with "human smuggling and resisting arrest" in Kinney County, Texas, reports PM.

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On August 22, a licensed Texas attorney and federally appointed immigration judge was taken into custody for alleged smuggling of migrants and resisting arrest.

TX: A licensed Texas attorney and Federally appointed immigration magistrate arrested in Kinney County for human smuggling and resisting arrest— according to Constable Jimmy Fullen. @CBP @TxDPS pic.twitter.com/AfyUb17lcC

- Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) August 21

According to Galveston County Constable Jimmy Fullen, Timothy Daniel Japhet was arrested and charged with "human smuggling and resisting arrest" in Kinney County, Texas. Fullen made the announcement on his Facebook page, along with photos of Japhet and four men who are accused of smuggling across the US-Mexico border.

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According to website To the Texas Bar Association, Japhet is listed as "eligible to practice" and has been licensed since 2003. He primarily practices outside of Corpus Christi and his specialties include commercial, environmental, government/administrative and energy law. Immigration law is not listed as one of his practices. Graduated from South Texas College of Law in 1998.

Japhet was also involved in some controversy in 2020 when, in the midst of the chaos surrounding the death of George Floyd, he made the shocking claim that the man identified as Floyd had actually died three years prior and he knew it's because he was his lawyer.

“The name of the person they use is dead. He died here in Corpus Christi three years ago. He actually played for Texas A&I, lived on the streets here, and died here. He didn’t die in Minnesota,” Japhet said.

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“So I'm telling you that the man they claim died in Minneapolis at the hands of the police did not die there. This man died in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the Christus Spohn Memorial Intensive Care Unit with me as his Guardian Ad Litem, and he is buried in the Flour Bluff Pauper Cemetery,” he said.

Japhet even gave an interview in which he repeated his claims that the real George Floyd had died long before the Minneapolis incident.

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