If the government is going to prosecute illegal migration, then congress needs to change willful illegal migration from a civil infraction, which is how it is designated currently, to a felony.
Key word: willful. I’m not referring to someone who, for reasons beyond their control, overstayed because of a bureaucratic visa issue, I refer to individuals who knowingly and with intent overstay visas or cross our borders illegally.
There is no deterrent value in our current laws. Currently, illegal entry in most instances doesn’t rise to the level of a felony unless an illegal re-enters the country after being deported. That needs to change. Congress needs to finally get down to the business of reworking our immigration laws and system.
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