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Zero Tolerance Lowers Arrest Rate

March 17, 2008 |

The new deterrent is jail time whether you did it for the first time or 1,000 times. What ever happened to allowing the excuse “Hey man, this is the border? I didn’t know. Isn’t this Mexico?”

Caught: A US border patrol agent detained an illegal migrant on Jan. 25 along a highway in El Paso, Texas. Illegal immigrants will face prosecution in US courts under a new program in the area.Pic and content: Christian Science Monitor:

Sunland Park, N.M.; and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico - For decades, most Mexicans caught trudging across the desolate and dusty hills of Sunland Park, N.M., have been fingerprinted and promptly sent back over the border.

But in an effort to slow the revolving door of job-seeking immigrants willing to test high-tech sensors, bike patrols, and fences that guard the American boundary here, border patrol agents have initiated a tough zero-tolerance policy along this 12-mile zone that stretches west from El Paso, Texas.

Anyone caught crossing illegally, agents say, will be arrested and prosecuted, whether it’s their first or 50th try. If they attempt to come back within five years, they face a felony charge.


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