{"id":146409,"date":"2018-06-25T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-border-agents-halt-migrant-family-prosecutions\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T22:35:19","slug":"us-border-agents-halt-migrant-family-prosecutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/us-border-agents-halt-migrant-family-prosecutions\/","title":{"rendered":"US border agents halt migrant family prosecutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Migrant parents, all of whom were separated from their children by US Customs and Border Patrol, arrive at a migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/533E\/production\/_102201312_hi047708739.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children.<\/p>\n<p>Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters in Texas the prosecution referrals were suspended last week.<\/p>\n<p>He said it followed an order last week by President Donald Trump calling for an end to migrant family separations.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Trump had suggested the families would instead be detained together.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner McAleenan&#039;s guidance to his agents effectively suspends the Trump administration&#039;s &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Migrant families face chaos to reunite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It paves the way for US immigration enforcement to revert largely to the approach under the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>US border agents who stop undocumented adult migrants accompanied by children will hand them a court summons and allow them to go on their way, rather than hold them in a detention facility.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump repeatedly lamented this &quot;catch and release&quot; policy before his administration began criminally prosecuting adult migrants and holding their children separately to deter border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the reality is that the US does not have the space to hold all the undocumented families coming across the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re not changing the policy,&quot; she told reporters. &quot;We&#039;re simply out of resources.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that two Texas military bases will be used as temporary camps to house the immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>But Defence Secretary Jim Mattis did not specify whether the facilities - Fort Bliss and Goodfellow Air Force Base - would house migrant families together. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children. Customs and Border Protection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}