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Miami, July 24 (EFEUSA) .- 32% of those arrested for illegally crossing Mexico's border in May faced criminal charges, a small proportion of the total number of people arrested and whose fate was the discretion of the border police. (CBP), according to a study published today.
According to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), the badysis center of the University of Syracuse, New York, cases of criminal prosecution were 9,216 out of 24,465 arrests of adults crossing the border without children, 32%.
The number of criminal cases in May represents an increase of 11.1% over the April, and figures 44.7% of the March figures as indicated by TRAC.
Although figures continue to increase since US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April his "zero tolerance" policy against illegal immigration, the badysis of TRAC shows that only one-third of cases ended in federal courts.
Thus, according to the study, "zero tolerance" did not eliminate as practical between the agents of procedural discretion, that is to say the power of members of the Border Patrol (CBP) to decide which individuals among the arrested will be criminally prosecuted.
In addition, criminal charges have increased in some areas of the southwestern border, while in others, no increase has been recorded.
They increased in the southern district of California and in the district of Texas, where the number of arrests for criminal cases doubled compared to the month of April. In contrast, declined in the Western District of Texas, where the highest number of arrests was recorded the previous month, in Arizona.
Last June, the Customs and Border Protection Bureau ensured that undocumented migrants arriving with children across the border were not transported to federal courts. that they be prosecuted. criminally the rest of the immigrants traveling without children.
The administration of Donald Trump altered the strategy of family separation by the indefinite detention of families in detention centers, to discourage the arrival of
However, an badysis published today By the Center for American Progress (CAP), which relies on internal memos from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reflects the fact that in the past, neither family separation nor family units has reduced the arrival of immigrants to the border.
According to this institution, in July 2014, the administration The installation of President Barack Obama (2009-2017) transformed several federal centers of "civilian detention" into places of "family detention" to stop the wave of unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border of the countries of Central America.
The badysis of the CAP reveals that the arrival of families increased in July 2014 and that there has been no statistically significant decrease in family apprehensions at the border. [TRADUCTION]
The RAP also recalls that, according to the newspaper The New York Times the current administration of Donald Trump began in July 2017 a policy against illegal immigration that included the separation of families.
However, monthly figures of border patrol arrests show that arrests of families on the southwestern border "have not been reduced because of the separation of the family."
"The Trump administration is it's focused on family separation and potentially indefinite detention.But both policies have proven ineffective," says the CAP.
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