The first illegal immigrant tried for entering the newly created military zone along the southern U.S. border was found not guilty on June 5.
Peruvian national Adely Vanessa De La Cruz-Alvarez, 21, was arrested in May in West Texas after entering the United States from Mexico by walking across the Rio Grande riverbed, according to court documents. While she was convicted by a jury of entering the country illegally and faces deportation, she also faced a second charge of entering restricted military property, a petty misdemeanor, of which the jury found her not guilty.
Scores of other illegal immigrants have been facing that trespassing charge after President Donald Trump created the militarized zones along the southern border as part of his administration’s strategy to crack down on illegal immigration….