Border crossers will be headed to jail

Carolyn Hileman* | October 26, 2007

TUCSON, Ariz. — Illegal border crossers arrested along Arizona’s stretch of U.S.-Mexican border will soon find themselves facing two weeks to six months in jail, which now is reserved only for repeat crossers and those with criminal records. The sector is working toward a zero-tolerance program known as “Operation Streamline” that is now used in the Yuma and Del Rio sectors, U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector Chief Robert W. Gilbert told a U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security subcommittee Wednesday. The program is also set to start soon in the Laredo Sector. The program creates a deterrent that dramatically alters the dynamics along the border.

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