if you chose to prosecute first time offenders, then the law was changed from being a civil offense to a misdemeanor, under the Bush2 presidency.....NO liar, it's was not Trumps policy it was the law, passed by Bush. You should stop lying or get the hell out of this country.There were no lies in the news in your OP. It is tRump's policy. You should get over it.I'm upset over filth being printed as news and lies being printed as fact. As a filthy liar yourself i can see how that would not bother you.Ironic. GOP media has spent decades radicalizing the right, convincing them war is better than compromise, anybody with a different opinion is not only your enemy but a monster working to destroy the country. You elected the culmination of all that work, and your upset at how people are taking it? Pussy.Keep up your shit troll. You people are trying to ignite this country. I pray you get what you got coming.
But law enforcement/border patrol/INS etc could use their own discretion on whether to bring charges or not...
With most minor crimes committed for the first time in this Nation, the charges are dropped, or not brought at all....
Under Bush and Obama, border patrol used their own discretion, and most of the time, people crossing illegally, were not charged with the misdemeanor, but were processed and deported, or processed and accepted under the refugee asylum program due to the proven violence they went thru in their home country....keeping parents and children together.
When the Trump team, Sessons specifically, introduced the Trump NEW POLICY of ZERO TOLERANCE....
it took the discretion to prosecute away from the people on the ground at the border....
so this zero tolerance policy of President Trump's
IS WHAT CAUSED the separation of thousands of kids from their parents....
the law has been the same since it passed under President Bush2,
but the policy on how the Executive branch wanted to handle the law, is what changed....zero tolerance is a new policy and was never used under Bush or Obama.... thus the absolute chaos and mayhem.