In 2014, Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona sent a letter to then Attorney General Eric Holder to explain why the Obama administration was ending the prosecution of “1st-time border crossers” under Operation Streamline, a “joint initiative of the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice in the United States, started in 2005, that adopts a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to unauthorized border-crossing by engaging in criminal prosecution of those engaging in it.”
Letter w/ @JeffFlake: AG Holder stops prosecutions of 1st-time border crossers under Operation Streamline: http://t.co/VzIqaCMCqE #Arizona
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) September 9, 2014
In the letter, McCain and Flake specifically called the prosecution of the 1st-time border crossers a “tool” in the “border-security toolbox” to help deal with “Central American family units and unaccompanied minors”:
Read the entire letter here.
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Steve Schmidt leaves the GOP over zero tolerance policy endorsed by John McCain in 2015 https://t.co/GiUkddMsFW
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