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Western District to drop charges against immigrants separated from children, email says
Aaron Martinez, El Paso Times, 3:36 p.m. MT June 21, 2018
... U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas will dismiss all illegal entry immigration cases where children were separated from their families, according to an email obtained by the El Paso Times.
An email sent by Maureen Scott Franco, head of the Federal Public Defenders Office of the Western District of Texas, states that federal prosecutors will dismiss the cases and no further charges will be filed against the parents.
The email was sent by Franco to all defense lawyers who are part of the Western District of Texas Criminal Justice Association. Franco could not immediately be reached for comment. Officials from the Western District office declined to discuss the email.
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