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What is Operation Streamline?
Operation Streamline, a policy begun in 2005, mandates that nearly all undocumented immigrants crossing the Southern border in certain areas be prosecuted through the federal criminal justice system, a departure from previous practices when most immigration cases were handled exclusively within the civil immigration system.
Operation Streamline has exposed undocumented border-crossers crossing to unprecedented rates of incarceration; overburdened the federal criminal justice system; and added enormous costs to the American taxpayer while providing a boon to the for-profit private prison industry.
Media on Operation Streamline
- "A 'maddening' system, from courtrooms to shelters" Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter, July 1, 2011
- "Border Convictions: High Stakes, Unknown Price" Ted Robbins, September 14, 2010
- "Border Patrol Program Raises Due Process Concerns" Ted Robbins, NPR, September 13, 2010
- "Claims Of Border Program Success Are Unproven" Ted Robbins, NPR, September 13, 2010
- "Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution, treats migrants like cattle, and doesn’t work." Stephen Lemons, Village Voice, October 20, 2010
- "Operation Streamline: Border enforcement that doesn't work," Joanna Lydgate, LA Times, May 14, 2010
- "Program Prosecutes Illegal Immigrants Before Deporting Them" Lauren Gambino, Latino America, News21.com, August 2010
- "Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons," Khalil Abdullah, New America Media, August 6, 2010
- "We're All Parasites.' This is Operation Streamline," Max Blumenthal, February 15, 2010
Reports on Operation Streamline
- "Arrested on Entry: Operation Streamline and the Prosecution of Immigration Crimes" Donald Kerwin and Kristen McCabe, Migration Policy Institute, April 2010
- "Assembly Line Justice: A Review of Operations Streamline" by the Warren Institute of the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, January, 2010
- "Operation Streamline and its Effects on the Courts and Law Enforcement on the Border" National Immigration Forum, May 11, 2010
- "Operation Streamline and its Effects on the Courts and Law Enforcement on the Border" National Immigration Forum, May 11, 2010
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McCain and Kyle continue push for Streamline, ignore recent reports
Arizona Senators John McCain and Jon Kyl continued their push for full funding of Operation Streamline last week in what CQ Today (“Arizona Senators Slam Report on Anti-Illegal Immigration Program,” August 25), called: an angry letter to the departments of … Continue reading
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