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Operation Streamline, launched in 2005, shifted many first-time and repeat unauthorized border crossings from civil removal into fast-track criminal prosecutions.
Estimates of children separated from parents at the U.S. border during the Trump administration vary widely because they were compiled from incomplete, inconsistent government records, court filings a...
Criminal prosecutions under 8 U.S.C. §1325 (illegal entry) and §1326 (illegal reentry) have become a large and visible share of federal criminal caseloads in recent years — at times representing more ...
Presidential administrations since 2000 have repeatedly shifted the executive branch’s use of prosecutorial discretion for C. §1325 (illegal entry), producing an oscillating pattern in which guidance,...
Three distinct federal turns — the launch in 2005, the ’s 2017–2018 prosecutorial push, and more recent surges under both the (as Title 42 unwound) and the 2025 Trump administration — account for the ...
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...
, launched in 2005 as a joint – “zero-tolerance” program, shifted many first-time and repeat unauthorized border crossings from civil removal into fast-track criminal prosecutions, dramatically raisin...
The dominant groups affected by U.S. removals have shifted across administrations: under Obama removals peaked in volume and disproportionately affected long-term migrants including Mexicans and Centr...