Nation Crackdown on immigrants takes a toll on federal judge: `I have presided over a process that destroys families` By Lauren Villagran May 24, 2018 | 4:00 AM | LAS CRUCES, N.M. Federal Judge Robert Brack in his chambers at the U.S. Courthouse building in Las Cruces, N.M. (Andres Leighton / For The Times) Day in, day out, immigrants shuffle into Judge Robert Brack`s courtroom, shackled at the wrist and ankle, to be sentenced for the crime of crossing the border. The judge hands down sentences with a heavy heart. Since he joined the federal bench in 2003, Brack has sentenced some 15,000 defendants, the vast majority of them immigrants with little or no criminal record. Advertisement `See, I...
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