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June 26, 2018

Border Patrol to Stop Handing Immigrant Parents Over for Prosecution
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This comes as the Customs and Border Protection commissioner has
announced immigration authorities will temporarily stop prosecuting
immigrant adults with children for crossing the border. CBP Commissioner
Kevin Mc Aleenan also said his agency and the Justice Department should
reach a policy "where adults who bring their kids across the border-who
violate our laws and risk their lives at the border-can be prosecuted
without an extended separation from their children." More than 2,000
children remain separated from their parents, jailed in detention
centers across the country.

On Monday, the incident commander of the tent city in Tornillo, Texas,
where migrant children are currently being imprisoned, said he is
against the separation of children from their parents. He told a group
of reporters, "It was an incredibly dumb, stupid decision by our
leadership. … All it did was harm children, no question about it."


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