{"id":364187,"date":"2018-06-05T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-hidden-horrors-of-zero-tolerance-policies-at-the-border\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:04:48","slug":"the-hidden-horrors-of-zero-tolerance-policies-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-hidden-horrors-of-zero-tolerance-policies-at-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” Policies at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Immigrants are facing mass trials and family separation at the US-Mexico border, as the government implements \u201czero tolerance\u201d policies directed at those trying to enter the United States. Mass trials for crossing the border, and scattered cases of family separations, have taken place since \u201cOperation Streamline\u201d was first introduced in 2005. But last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the federal government will now prosecute \u201c100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings.\u201d For more, we speak in Austin, Texas, with independent journalist Debbie Nathan. Her new report for The Intercept is headlined \u201cHidden Horrors of \u2018Zero Tolerance\u2019\u2014Mass Trials and Children Taken from Their Parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AMY<\/span> GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> This is Democracy Now! I\u2019m Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n

JUAN<\/span> GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> We turn now to the US-Mexico border, where a reporter obtained a recording of immigrant parents who have been separated from their children. The audio is from a mass trial of dozens of immigrants in a courtroom in Brownsville, Texas. Standing shoulder to shoulder, men and women, in shackles, plead guilty to the crime of illegal entry during a mass trial. If you listen closely, you can hear the clinking of their chains as Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan asks a man if he would like to say anything before he is sentenced.<\/p>\n

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JUDGE<\/span> RONALD<\/span> MORGAN<\/span>:<\/strong> Anything else you wish to say then before sentence?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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UNIDENTIFED<\/span> DEFENDANT<\/span>:<\/strong> No.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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JUDGE<\/span> RONALD<\/span> MORGAN<\/span>:<\/strong> OK. Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez-Rodr\u00edguez, anything you with to say before sentence?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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MR. HERN\u00c1NDEZ-RODR\u00cdGUEZ:<\/strong> S\u00ed. Tambi\u00e9n sobre mi hijo \u00bfyo lo traigo conmigo? Aqu\u00ed me lo separaron.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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TRANSLATOR<\/span>:<\/strong> Also, I was bringing my child with me, and we got separated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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JUDGE<\/span> RONALD<\/span> MORGAN<\/span>:<\/strong> OK. Like I just told Mr. Hern\u00e1ndez-L\u00f3pez, my understanding, the way it\u2019s supposed to work, is because you\u2019re from a country other than Mexico, you\u2019re going to be sent to a…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Immigrants are facing mass trials and family separation at the US-Mexico border, as the government implements \u201czero tolerance\u201d policies directed at those trying to enter the United States. Mass trials for crossing the border, and scattered cases of family separations, have taken place since \u201cOperation Streamline\u201d was first introduced in 2005. But last month, Attorney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}