A judge of New Mexico in the United States rejected on Thursday the accusations of invasion of the property against dozens of migrants arrested in a new military area on the border between the United States-Mixic, marking a setback in the efforts of the Trump government to increase the penalty of illegal crossing.
The magistrate’s head of judge Gregory Wormuth began to present storage decisions on Wednesday evening, determining that migrants did not know they were entering the military area of New Mexico and therefore could not be accused, according to the court documents.
The federal public defender Amanda Skinner said that Wormuth rejected the accusations against all migrants who attended the court. Migrants still face accusations for illegally crossing the border.
“Judge Wormuth did not find any probable cause,” Skinner said in one and -mail.
The New Mexico Prosecutor Ryan Ellison, who presented the first prosecution charges owned on April 28, did not immediately respond to a comment request.
The national defense area of New Mexico thus called was founded in April over 290 kilometers from the border. The troops of the American army patrol the area and can stop civilians.
This month a second security area was created in Texas. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said that the military will continue to expand the areas to obtain “100%operational control” of the border. Migrants arrested in military areas face combined penalties up to ten years of prison, he said.
But Wormuth contrasted the accusations, ordering Ellison on May 1st showing that migrants arrested in the New Mexico area knew they had entered a limited area.
Defense lawyers claimed that the warning signals in the area were inadequate to inform migrants who were committing a crime, a position with which Wormuth agreed.
“The criminal complaint does not establish a cause that probably believes that the accused knew he was entering” in the military area, wrote Wormuth, an ex -American prosecutor appointed in his current position in 2009.
He rejected the accusations in 98 cases recorded this week, said Barbara Mandel, supervisor of the office of the federal public defender in Las Cruces.
Some other migrants have already entered into the confession agreements and will seek the acquittal of the accusations of invasion of the property to the trial, he said.
Mandel hoped that the government would have requested suspension from the orders of Wormuth and then resort.
Until May 9, Ellison’s office reported having indicated 339 migrants to enter the New Mexico military area.
Source: Terra
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