09/11/2026
Constable Vojvodich fully supports lawful ICE enforcement and the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. Securing our borders, protecting American communities, and addressing individuals who enter or remain in the United States unlawfully—and who subsequently violate additional laws—are legitimate public-safety responsibilities.
The financial burden associated with illegal immigration is substantial. Various estimates have placed the nationwide taxpayer cost at approximately $172 billion annually nationwide when considering expenditures associated with health care, education, housing and sheltering, legal services, court costs, criminal-justice expenses, fraud, and other publicly funded services. These costs are ultimately borne by taxpayers, including veterans, working families, retirees, and lawful residents who are expected to support themselves and comply with our laws.
Precinct 3 will continue providing professional law-enforcement services to every person and community we are charged with protecting. However, when our deputies lawfully encounter individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States and who are committing additional violations of law, we will take the appropriate action authorized and required by law.
Texas constables are independently elected constitutional officers, and constables and their deputies are Texas peace officers with statutory duties imposed upon them by state law. Those duties are not optional. Commissioners Court cannot lawfully require a peace officer to disregard a statutory duty or prevent an elected constable from carrying out responsibilities imposed by the Texas Constitution and laws of this State.
The equipment requested through this grant requires no Bexar County matching funds. The same equipment can enhance the protection of our schools and children, assist deputies and investigators in identifying dangerous substances, and support investigations involving human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, and other serious criminal activity. These are precisely the types of public-safety capabilities that government should be seeking to expand—not restrict.
It is particularly troubling that human trafficking and drug-trafficking enforcement were excluded from the County’s characterization of acceptable grant purposes despite the obvious relationship between these crimes and the safety of our schools, children, and communities.
Commissioners Court frequently speaks about fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline should begin with accepting legitimate outside funding when it can provide necessary public-safety equipment without requiring a County taxpayer match. The County should prioritize essential governmental responsibilities, reduce unnecessary taxpayer-funded travel and discretionary expenditures by elected officials, and focus County resources on the core services Bexar County government exists to provide.
Precinct 3 will continue to place public safety, fiscal responsibility, enforcement of the law, and fulfillment of our constitutional and statutory duties ahead of political considerations.
Our responsibility is to the law, to the taxpayers, and to the people we were elected to protect—not to the political agenda of Commissioners Court.
