Arizona Border Patrol targets 40 per day for federal criminal prosecution
"Border Patrol officials are sending as many as 40 illegal entrants a day for prosecution and jail time under a downsized version of the agency's zero- tolerance initiative.
Even though the process and the consequences for the selected illegal border crossers are the same as Operation Streamline — the program's name in the Yuma and Del Rio and Laredo, Texas, sectors where it's also in use — officials in the Tucson Sector are calling it an "enhanced enforcement operation," until they get approval from headquarters, said Jesús Rodriguez, a Tucson Sector spokesman.
"Once the numbers start to increase for prosecution, it will be called 'Streamline,' " said Rodriguez said.
The agency must be able to prosecute every single person caught in a designated zone, something that isn't happening yet in the Tucson Sector, for it to be called Operation Streamline, said Lloyd Easterling, a Border Patrol spokesman in Washington, D.C."
BRADY McCOMBS in the Arizona Daily Star.