Child detention takes resources away from fighting crime
By Caroline Orr - June 23, 2018
... Internal emails obtained by USA Today show that a Justice Department supervisor in San Diego warned border authorities in May that the surge of immigration cases stemming from Trump’s crackdown at the border “will occupy substantially more of our resources.”
The supervisor, who runs the major crimes unit at the local U.S. Attorney’s Office, said in the email that prosecutors were “diverting staff, both support and attorneys” as a result of the Trump administration’s demand for all unauthorized border crossings to be criminally prosecuted.
As USA Today noted, prosecuting unauthorized border crossings is a largely symbolic gesture.
The minor charges in these cases usually result in no jail time and a $10 fee — but the Trump administration has used these cases as the legal justification for forcibly separating children from their parents ...
https://shareblue.com/trump-family-separation-zero-tolerance-immigration-divert-resources-drug-smuggling/
