The Department of Homeland Security has now made it clear
that its policy really is to separate
parents from their children when they enter the U.S. to seek asylum. The
policy will be implemented by prosecuting the parents if they attempt to cross
the border anywhere except at a legal port of entry. This comes as a caravan of
asylum seekers, mostly from Central America, prepare to cross the border into
California today. The Trump administration has hyped the planned entry—by some
100 people, mostly women and children—as some sort of foreign invasion.
The plan to prosecute people for illegal entry, a
misdemeanor, comes right after Huffington Post’s Roque Planas published
an article about the way these prosecutions take resources away from the
prosecution of far more serious federal crimes. The crimes that will get less
attention include bank fraud, gun smuggling, money laundering—crimes that
benefit people like bankers, arms manufacturers, and real
estate moguls who sell to money launderers…. –TPOI editor
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| The invading caravan in Tijuana. Photo: Ariana Drehsler/BuzzFeed News |
Top Homeland Security officials urge criminal prosecution of
parents crossing border with children
By Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post
April 26, 2018
The nation’s top immigration and border officials are urging
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to detain and prosecute all
parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children, a
stark change in policy that would result in the separation of families that
until now have mostly been kept together.
If approved, the zero-tolerance measure could split up
thousands of families, although officials say they would not prosecute those
who turn themselves in at legal ports of entry and claim asylum. More than
20,000 of the 30,000 migrants who sought asylum during the first quarter — the
period from October-December — of the current fiscal year crossed the border
illegally.[…]
Read the full article:
At the U.S. border, a diminished migrant caravan readies
for an unwelcoming reception
By Nick Miroff, Washington Post
April 27, 2018
TIJUANA, Mexico — The American president, a former real
estate mogul, does not want Byron Garcia in the United States. But the Honduran
teenager was too busy building his own hotel empire this week to worry much
about that.
Vermont Avenue and Connecticut Avenue were his. Now he was
looking to move up-market.[…]
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But the attorney general’s plans come at a cost.
By Roque Planas, HuffPost
April 26, 2018
When Tim Purdon became U.S. attorney for North Dakota in
2010, he had a priority: improving public safety on the state’s four Indian
reservations. Prosecuting violent crimes on Indian reservations falls to the
Justice Department, and Purdon himself had worked similar cases as a public
defender before taking on the U.S. attorney job.
But when Purdon took office, he found that more than a third
of his criminal caseload consisted of immigration prosecutions, even though
North Dakota lies more than 1,000 miles from the border with Mexico. Despite
the state’s proximity to Canada, the defendants were by and large Latin
Americans who’d been caught in the U.S. after getting deported. The cases were
easy to win. All prosecutors needed was to present paperwork proving the prior
deportation. But the cases sapped time away from Purdon’s prosecutors, whom
he’d have rather tasked with crimes on the reservations or white-collar
cases.[…]
Read the full article:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-wants-to-make-the-justice-department-more-like-ice_us_5ae0f3d3e4b02baed1b60aff?7pk
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