Border Patrol Is Targeting Legal Immigrants Using a 1940 Law in Southern Arizona

Border Patrol Is Targeting Legal Immigrants Using a 1940 Law in Southern Arizona

Republished with permission from Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, by Alexandra Markovich For the first time in Arizona, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are using a Cold War-era law to ticket legal immigrants for minor offenses like not carrying their immigration documents, a break from the agency’s longstanding focus on people in the country illegally. In the past year, federal agents in southwest Arizona issued more than 10…