In April, US attorney general Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecutors on the US-Mexico border to adopt a “zero tolerance” policy toward people trying to enter the country without authorization. The policy created havoc, funnelling thousands of migrants into the federal criminal justice system over a minor misdemeanor, and forcing the separation of thousands of children from their parents.
We want to shine a light on the lasting repercussions of the policy by telling the stories of those affected, from the migrants themselves to the public employees tasked with implementing assembly-line justice.
- Have you, your family or someone you know been arrested and/or deported at the US-Mexico border since April 2018?
- Do you work in the US immigration system (Customs & Border Patrol, detention centers, Ice, US attorney’s office, federal defenders etc)?
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Has your community been disrupted by the increase in immigration prosecutions?
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