Thread: Undocumented border crossing Arizona face prison sentences

This is from La Raza – Chicago
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Published 01-15-2008
Undocumented border crossing Arizona face prison sentences

Tucson, Arizona. - Starting yesterday undocumented immigrants who are arrested by the Border Patrol in the Arizona desert will be subjected to a criminal trial and could spend up to 180 days in jail before being deported.

Under the new regulations, illegal aliens who are apprehended for the first time will face charges for a misdemeanor, which carries a possible sentence of 15 to 180 days' imprisonment.


The aliens who are apprehended for the first time will face charges for a misdemeanor, which carries a possible sentence of 15 to 180 days' imprisonment.

This background prevents them from returning to the United States under any circumstances and if they are arrested for the second time trying to enter illegally are accused of a felony, punishable by several years' imprisonment.

The spokesman for the Tucson Border Patrol sector Jose Gonzalez told Efe that the new measures are part of "Operation Streamline" that already operates in the areas of Del Rio (Texas) and Yuma (Ariz.), and according to the federal agency, have helped the decline in the number of arrests of illegal immigrants in these areas.

Gonzalez clarified not have figures on how many immigrants could be affected by this initiative.

"That is why we do not want to call this program 'zero tolerance' because that would mean that all undocumented arrested will be prosecuted and this is not the case," said the spokesman.

At the end of the year ...
Fiscal 2007 (30 September) more than 378,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended in the Tucson Sector of the Border Patrol, which covers 90 percent of the Arizona border.

This figure means 40 percent of the total arrests of illegal immigrants made in the nearly 2,000-mile border shared by the United States and Mexico.

Well thank you La Raza for letting the folks know about this...

Here is a smaller story that was also there as a link to “News in Mexicoâ€