Should the US repeal the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that makes illegally crossing the border a crime? It's a question that's been floated in immigration policy circles for a while
As Democratic presidential hopefuls spar in the leadup to 2020, there's one immigration proposal that keeps coming up.
Should the US repeal the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that makes illegally crossing the border a crime?It's an idea that's been floated in immigration policy circles for a while. Julian Castro pushed it into the national spotlight during the first Democratic presidential debates in June, and it came up again in Tuesday night's debate. The notion seems to be gaining steam.
Warren: We must be a country that lives our values 00:36One key point to keep in mind: Just a few hours before the debate, a new court filing from the American Civil Liberties Union detailed hundreds of family separations at the border in the past year that had nothing to do with Section 1325. In some of those cases, according to the ACLU, families were separated because of minor offenses on parents' criminal records, such as traffic offenses or property damage.
Castro and O'Rourke's head-on clash over immigration 02:40Bullock cited recent comments by Jeh Johnson, who headed the Department of Homeland Security for several years during the Obama administration.In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Johnson wrote that decriminalizing border crossing would be"tantamount to a public declaration that our borders are effectively open to all.
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