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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Pitman dismisses a putative class action brought by male migrants against Governor Greg Abbott and other officials alleging they were “channeled into a separate criminal system” after being arrested for criminal trespass as part of Operation Lone Star — Texas’ state operation to counter human and drug smuggling — rather than being processed “through the normal state jail system.” The migrants said they sometimes “waited for weeks or months” for a defense attorney and were “detained for extended periods of time after they were eligible for release.” The migrants’ claims fail for a number of reasons, including because they have failed to show “direct involvement” of state officials in allegedly unconstitutional policies and because higher courts have rejected their arguments that they could seek injunctive relief despite no longer being in prison.