| | The administration's decision this summer to prosecute everyone caught entering the USA illegally flooded federal courts with thousands of cases, most of them involving minor immigration violations that resulted in no jail time and a $10 fee. As prosecutors and border agents raced to bring those immigrants to court, the number of people they charged under drug-trafficking laws dropped by 30 percent along the border â and in some places far more steeply than that, a USA TODAY review of court dockets and Justice Department records found.
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