Starting Monday, every undocumented immigrant caught crossing the border between Mount Cristo Rey and the Paso del Norte Bridge will be prosecuted, Border Patrol officials said Friday.

Captured migrants are now fingerprinted, and if they have no criminal history, can be returned to Mexico within hours without being formally deported or serving jail time.

The new, zero-tolerance program, called "No Pass," is reminiscent of Operation Streamline, which started in 2005 in the Del Rio, Texas, sector and has spread to Laredo, Texas, and Yuma, Ariz.

Under the programs, undocumented immigrants are charged with the misdemeanor "entry without inspection," for which they can face up to 180 days behind bars.

But No Pass will not be citywide, Border Patrol spokesman Ramiro Cordero said. "We couldn't (detain) everybody. We'd fill the El Paso County Jail in a couple of hours."

Last year, Border Patrol agents caught 75,464 undocumented immigrants in El Paso County and New Mexico, or an average of about 200 people a day.

The idea behind the program is that jail time will deter migrants from attempting to cross illegally.
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The paper goes out of the way to identify exactly where this "No Pass" policy is going to be implemented, and still calls illegal aliens, including Mexican drug smugglers "undocumented immigrants."