Latin American Herald Tribune, 1/23/2012
The U.S. government is seeking to take advantage of its firmer grip on the border with Mexico to impose tougher consequences on nearly all detained undocumented immigrants, including first-time offenders.
The new approach will bring an end to the previous procedure of simply taking the fingerprints and photographs of most detained undocumented migrants and, unless they had been nabbed repeatedly trying to cross the frontier or found to have criminal records, later sending them back across the border in the same zone where they had been caught.
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