I had a zero-tolerance policy too as a police chief. You know who it was for? For murderers and rapists and robbers and other people who committed violent crime, not people trying to get across the border who had committed no violent offense, just trying to make a better life for their families.
Demings contrasts her zero-tolerance policy with the treatment of non-violent border crossers.
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