Prosecutors have offered to release most of the 11 migrants based on time served if they agree to plead guilty. But President Donald Trump ’s caravan prosecutions are already hitting roadblocks. Lawyers are challenging most of the normally open-and-shut misdemeanor immigration prosecutions and using the president’s tweets and public statements about Central Americans to do it. Run-of-the-mill immigration prosecutions are rarely celebrated with press releases and statements from the attorney general, as these were. But the original $10,000 bonds sought by the government have already been reduced in several of the “caravan” cases.

Source: Huffington Post May 11, 2018 01:41 UTC