Critical race theory takes aim at immigration law; courts wrestle with Hispanic disparity in cases

Article author: 
Steven Dinan
Article publisher: 
the Washington Times
Article date: 
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Article category: 
Crime
Medium
Article Body: 

Forget drugs or fraud. The most common type of case federal prosecutors bring is against illegal immigrants who try to reenter the country after having been ousted — and almost all of those charged are Hispanic.

Now federal courts are grappling with whether that imbalance means the law itself is racist. . . .