Posted on 04/14/2017 9:56:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Through Republican and Democratic presidential administrations, the top federal prosecutor on California’s border with Mexico has resisted going after people caught entering the U.S. illegally on their first try and instead targeted smugglers and serial offenders.
That approach may face a day of reckoning under President Donald Trump.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new directive on border crimes suggests prosecutors in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas will be forced to tow (sic) a narrow line.
He says each should consider felony prosecution for anyone convicted twice of entering illegally and develop plans to target first-time offenders and charge them with misdemeanors that could send them to jail for up to six months. …
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
“... top federal prosecutor on California’s border with Mexico has resisted going after people caught entering the U.S. illegally ....”
It took everything young master Sagat had not to write “folks” instead of “people”
This going to cause another revolution in Mexico.
“...develop plans to target first-time offenders and charge them with misdemeanors that could send them to jail for up to six months.”
We certainly don’t have the jail capacity for that, but threatening it is ok.
But he needs to get on the ball with e-verify and punishing employers.
it will be more effective and cost a lot less
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