Federal Program Delivers Speedy 25-Second Trials to Illegal Immigrants, Then Jail
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Known as Operation Streamline, the government hauls groups of unwashed immigrants captured near the border into courtrooms and gives them less than 30 seconds a piece to hear the charges against them, enter a plea and receive their sentence.
Judges involved in the process insist it’s legal and constitutional.
“As ugly as some people think it is, it’s a bargain for the defendants,” Magistrate Judge Bernardo P. Velasco of Federal District Court in Tucson, Arizona, told The New York Times. “What we do is constitutional, it satisfies due process. It may not look good, but it does everything the law requires.” Velasco said he gives each of his defendants about 25 seconds for his or her trial.
Critics have labeled the process—which began under President George W. Bush and expanded under President Barack Obama—assembly-line justice.
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After being sentenced, the immigrants spend anywhere from one to six months in prison before getting deported.
Supporters of Operation Streamline say the program has discouraged people from coming back over the border without authorization.
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