Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children fo
Source: WaPo
Border Patrol will stop referring migrant parents who cross into the U.S. illegally with children for prosecution, official says
The U.S. Border Patrol will no longer refer migrant parents who cross into the United States illegally with children to federal courthouses to face criminal charges, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told The Washington Post on Thursday.
The about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s widely denounced practice of separating parents and children apprehended for illegally crossing the Mexico border. Trump’s order said the government would maintain a “zero tolerance” policy toward those who break the law, but the senior U.S. official, asked to explain how the government would change enforcement practices, said Border Patrol agents were instructed Wednesday evening to stop sending parents with children to federal courthouses for prosecution.
A Justice Department spokesperson denied changes to the zero tolerance policy and said prosecutions would continue.
But the decision to refer migrants for criminal charges after crossing illegally rests with the U.S. Border Patrol, and the senior CBP official said the agency will no longer send parents who arrive with children to federal courts.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-will-stop-prosecuting-parents-who-cross-the-border-illegally-with-children-official-says/2018/06/21/4902b194-7564-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html
This is WaPo's correction of their earlier story, and the text quoted above is preceded by their explanation of what was wrong about the first version.
Linking to my earlier LBN thread about the first version of the story, which I'll delete now.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10142090548
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