May 25, 2018

WERE WE OUT OF STARS?:

Parents, children ensnared in 'zero-tolerance' border prosecutions (Curt Prendergast and Perla Trevizo, 5/19/18,  Arizona Daily Star)

Alma Jacinto covered her eyes with her hands as tears streamed down her cheeks.

The 36-year-old from Guatemala was led out of the federal courtroom without an answer to the question that brought her to tears: When would she see her boys again?

Jacinto wore a yellow bracelet on her left wrist, which defense lawyers said identifies parents who are arrested with their children and prosecuted in Operation Streamline, a fast-track program for illegal border crossers.

Posted by at May 25, 2018 5:56 AM

  

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