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Operation Streamline (2005-2013)

Operation Streamline's impact on immigration cases and prosecution rates between 2005 and 2013, including its effects on migration flows, court dockets, and fiscal costs.

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Jan 18, 2026

How did Operation Streamline change the rate of criminal prosecutions for border crossings since 2005?

Operation Streamline, launched in late 2005, abruptly shifted large numbers of unauthorized border-crossing cases from civil immigration processing into federal criminal courts and coincided with a sh...