Sen. Jeff Flake calls for ‘zero tolerance’ of illegal border crossing
U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) advocated for the restoration of a "zero tolerance" approach to illegal border crossings as part of Operation Streamline.
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
PHOENIX — A letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions from U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) advocated for the restoration of a “zero tolerance” approach to illegal border crossings as part of Operation Streamline.
Operation Streamline was put in place in 2005 as a Border Patrol initiative to “refer aliens entering the United States illegally for the first time or attempting reentry to DOJ for criminal prosecution,” according to a report from the Office of Inspector General.
In his letter, Flake intimated that the effectiveness of Operation Streamline was dwindling away.
“Unfortunately, despite (Operation Streamline’s) effectiveness, the previous administration sought to water down its deterrent effect by shifting its policy to targeting only first-time illegal border crossers whom had a known criminal history or were otherwise a threat to public safety,” Flake wrote to Sessions.
Flake also included three questions to Sessions, the former Senator who was appointed to Attorney General by President Donald Trump. All three questions press Sessions on his belief in the initiative and whether it would continue as originally intended.
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His call is the law. We simply need to enforce the law and secure the border. 12 million people here, 90% come through Mexico. That is an invasion and we need to stop more from coming and remove those here. No ifos, andos or butos.
Old Ned please look at your first sentence in the your previous post. You just contradicted yourself with this post.
Now if we can only get the lazy unemployed trump supporters to get off of their rear ends and take the jobs recently vacated by deported or departing illegal immigrants. Not nearly as easy as it may seem since the American work ethic has taken a major hit during the past three decades or so. Many tens of millions of trump supporting Americans still don't want to do hard labor under the baking sun at almost any wage. Employers in dozens of our economic sectors are begging for workers and productivity is also taking a hit. Delusional trump's hope of growing the economy at 3% a year ain't gonna happen without more immigrant workers coming in, even with 0% employment among Americans.