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Record number of illegal immigrants charged with minor crimes
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Q1x00213_9 Since 2005, the federal government has filed criminal charges against more illegal immigrants than ever before, according to a story on the front page of The Washington Post.

The paper says federal agents participating in this zero-tolerance program have been charging every person they catch crossing certain segments of the border with misdemeanor violations of federal law.

"In areas where it has been applied -- which total about 500 miles, or one-fourth of the border -- Operation Streamline has slowed border traffic more substantially," the paper says. "The number of apprehensions fell by nearly 70 percent in the last quarter of 2008 along a 120-mile stretch near Yuma, Ariz., after the program was phased in between December 2006 and June 2007, and by nearly 70 percent along the 210-mile span near Del Rio. Apprehensions fell 22 percent after Operation Streamline was initiated in October along 171 miles near Laredo, Tex."

As of February, the paper says third-party data show these immigration cases accounted for more than half of the Justice Department's new prosecutions.(The Post says a Justice Department spokesman challenged the specifics, but not the overall conclusions, of the group's report.)

Some critics say the program is consuming too many resources. Others complain that the initiative should focus on companies that break the law by hiring undocumented immigrants.

"They're finding other routes," Ricardo Ahuja, the Mexican consul in Del Rio, Texas, tells the Star-Telegram, which reported on the program last week. "It's a question of supply and demand. If there weren't jobs waiting for them in the U.S., they wouldn't cross.

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If there weren't jobs waiting for them in the U.S., they wouldn't cross.

What? They got help wanted adds in their paper from America or something? Sure wish they'd be in our papers so Americans knew where all these jobs were.

Good! The 2nd best way to document the undocumented and preceeded only by deportation hearings.

Dixie