Border crackdown reporting success

Too Little, Too Late. The only thing that will come close to stopping border problems is a wall, with razor wire and armed guard towers.

Federal immigration authorities say they are successfully implementing an aggressive, zero-tolerance policy at a major hot spot for illegal entry into the United States.
In a desolate area in Texas between Eagle Pass and Del Rio – including a 60-mile stretch of the Rio Grande – the longstanding practice of allowing border crossers to appear voluntarily at deportation hearings has been replaced with an experimental program, the Houston Chronicle reports.
"The old days of 'catch and release' for those folks are over," U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton told the paper.
Since Dec. 12, officials have been sending scores of illegal aliens through a swift process of detention, expedited hearings and deportation.
More than 500 illegal entrants have been detained.
The zero-tolerance policy – a Homeland Security initiative called "Operation Streamline II" – is being implemented in alternating areas of the 60-mile Del Rio Border Patrol Sector. The plan is to expand the practice in small segments at a time.

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