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Let's just call them immigrants or undocumented. "Illegal" just makes them sound like rapists and murderers.
also, being undocumented isn't illegal. existing isn't a crime.
Yeah a lot of people don't realize that being in the U.S without like asylum status or a green card, work visa, whatever. ... Yeah it's not illegal.
You can get in some trouble in the form of deportation and restricted from coming back.
But on the books. It's not illegal.
Thats what the magas don't get either. "Well they shouldn't have been here illegally"
They weren't. No one is here illegally because there are no laws against it. Just regulations.
This is also why it actually is illegal to arrest them and put them in prisons or long term camps just for being undocumented. That's kidnapping and illegal imprisonment.
shithole country
Who doesn't get it? Hey you got to tell these government officials that they are wasting their time. I also heard that there's a child molester in charge of a country of not child molesters. And they are speaking truth to power but are so powerless that were actually lying.
Also, being an alien is not any sort of wrong. People going through the formal authorised pipelines are also aliens.
Somehow people have heard the term "illegal alien" and have decided that they can drop the word "illegal" and retain the same meaning.
I'm an alien
I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
yhea, is just a way to signal the world that they're are a racist prick that will only improve the world after their funeral.
Ok. I'm thinking he might want to replace his PR team, is that you? I would consider the creature who thought up that plan to be a degenerate. And would have to initiate them into service.
It is illegal and it is a crime and that makes doing it fucking cool and i will buy you a beer or joint or something for being that cool, and also for 'welcome, death to the state' reasons.
but, it isn't, it's a civil violation. not a criminal one. so no beer for me 😔
It's more complicated than that.
Most immigrants without proper documentation arrived legally and therefore haven't committed a crime, they overstayed or fell out of status, which is civil.
But people who enter or reenter the United States without permission CAN face criminal charges, specifically under 8 USC section 1325 (improper entry, a misdemeanour) and section 1326 (reentry after deportation, a felony).