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Operation Streamline

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Jan 26, 2026

How did Operation Streamline influence federal prosecutorial priorities for drug and weapons cases in border districts?

’s mass criminalization of unlawful border crossings reoriented federal dockets in border districts toward immigration misdemeanor and reentry prosecutions, consuming courtroom time, detention space a...

Jan 25, 2026

How did demographic and country-of-origin patterns of deportees change under different presidential administrations since 1990?

since 1990 show shifting volumes, targets and legal tactics across administrations: Democrats presided over a higher share of removals in the aggregate from 1990–2018 while enforcement priorities and ...

Jan 18, 2026

What evidence exists about Operation Streamline’s effect on asylum seekers’ access to protection?

Operation Streamline is a federal program that mass-criminally prosecutes unauthorized border crossers and has been documented to funnel some people who express fear of return into criminal courts rat...