Pulling Trump, prosecution of border immigrants

Border and Customs Protection Commissioner Kevin McAlean explained that the prosecution of migrants illegally crossing the border to enter the United States has been temporarily suspended.

In this way, he says, the order given last week by the White House chief for the end of family division was simply implemented, a phenomenon that has caused great controversy both within the United States and outside.

But what Trump actually suggested was that families be stopped together. The republican president submitted to public pressure Wednesday when he signed the executive order, which holds families together at immigrant centres.

McAleenan says zero tolerance tactics continue to remain in force, but according to the BBC, his instructions to agents have created a kind of confusion.

According to this practice, parents cannot be prosecuted if they are associated with children, and American officials no longer intend to share. This means that border agents who stop adult immigrants without documents accompanied by minors will hand over a sheet that testifies to the violation and let them leave on their jobs instead of keeping them in detention centres.