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Judges have enforced Attorney General Jeff Session’s “zero tolerance” policy that calls for all immigrants crossing the border illegally to be charged with a crime.
The New Mexico “fast-track” system and the manageable level of immigrants crossing through New Mexico allow for nonviolent migrants to be prosecuted quickly.
"It is an efficient process," U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico John Anderson told the Los Angeles Times. "That is one of the key features that allows us to implement 100 percent prosecutions."
Brack ranked first among 680 judges nationwide for his caseload from 2012-2017, sentencing 6,858 offenders, 5,823 of them for felony immigration violations, according to Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Still, Brack said he faces a moral dilemma reconciling his oath to the law with his discomfort in participating in a system he views as unjust.
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