A legal Q : Do we prosecute illegal immigrants under US *ciminal laws* or under US *civil laws*?
Answer:
look up 8 USC 1325/illegal entry
8 usc 1324/transporting illegals.
We don't prosecute illegal immigrants PERIOD. The laws aren't enforced.
Due to oversaturation they are typically addressed civilly because it is easier and cheaper to prosecute. However, it has been shown to be much more effective when prosecuted criminally.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
yawn... big business that wants slave labor benefits. Like we don't know?
http://washingtontimes.com/national/prud...
"Jeff Sessions, the Republican senator from Alabama, was similarly wounded. "That's hurtful language," he said of the president's venomous needle. "If the bill did what they promised it was going to do, I'd support it."
Nearly everybody agrees that it won't. All week long, to the president's growing frustration, friend and foe lined up to say how the "reforms" only make things worse. The few fans of the "reform" legislation began to search frantically for loopholes to flee through. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, the two Republican senators from Georgia who voted for the president's bill, began to talk fondly about their second thoughts after they went home and were all but booed offstage at their party's state convention. Both men said they now might vote against final passage unless it is amended to their satisfaction, an eerie echo of John Francois Kerry's boast that he voted for going to war in Iraq before he voted against it.
Some friends of the president argue that the problem is not with the legislation, but with its paternity. Teddy Kennedy is the author, together with Jon Kyl of Arizona, and he described a scary prospect for the 12 million illegal aliens already among us if his scheme does not become law. "They'll be injured by sharp hooks, knives, exhausting assembly-line speeds." He tells how illegals in Massachusetts are "fired for going to the bathroom, denied overtime pay, docked 15 minutes' pay for every minute they were late ... fired for talking while on the clock, forced to ration toilet paper." (The senator, like the singer Sheryl Crow, is haunted by the prospect of running out of toilet paper.)
Mr. Kennedy's rant, in fact, inadvertently reveals exactly why the big-business employers want the so-called reform legislation -- it guarantees an inexhaustible supply of exploitable stoop laborers. George W. and his strange new bedfellows promise in return to seal the border, but nobody believes them. The president's oldest and most reliable friends think that promise will quickly become "inoperative" once the "reforms" are actually enacted. That's why the captains of the chicken-plucking industry love it. Some legacy. "
They are criminal codes. I don't have them handy, but you can look them up with the INS.
In response (well, first a response to the first responder --- Reagan exposed liberals? Why wasn't he prosecuted and who knew he had such sick tendencies? Did he sneak up on them and pull their pants down?), it's generally civil in a rather uncivil fashion.
When someone breaks the law we here in America call them criminals. You want to make up another name for them like quasi-criminals go right ahead. Surely your joking with that question. A person with one year of school would know that. Do you even know the difference between torts and crimial law? It doesn't sound like it.
Both, it depends upon the type of crime and the severity of the crime. There's no doubt about it: Illegal immigrants ARE criminals because they broke our laws by entering the country without the documented permission by our government to enter.
You should prosecute President for leading a process of legalising illegals
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