BuddyColt
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Wow. I guess I'd always thought that if you were sent to prison for something then it implied you had been found guilty of committing a crime.
Nobody is being sent to prison. Did you not read the court ruling by Mukasey?
A Title 8 USC 1325 infraction is a civil violation of the law. Mukasey cites many other rulings to show that these are civil infractions, NOT crimes. THAT is why he denied the taxpayer funded attorney to the defendant in the case.
Are you reading the posts OR just posting B.S., hoping to find really ignorant people to side with you? Do you care what happens when you keep having people believe this claptrap that a civil violation equals a crime?
Darren Huff used to agree with you. Read my opening three posts. Do you STILL think Huff would agree with you? OR would he say, I should have listened...?????
No, I didn't read the ruling and have no idea who Mukasey is. I just read the bit that said that if you'd entered the country in a manner that was not consistent with what was required then the penalties include to possibility of six months in prison.
Of course you did not read the entire thread. Neither did any critic on this board. Mukasey was the nation's highest ranking immigration official - he was George W. Bush's Eric Holder.
You have to read the entire statute. Unless improper entry is in Title 18, it cannot possibly be a crime. Title 18 is the CRIMINAL CODE. Read Title 8 (EIGHT.) It does not impose criminal penalties. Title 8 says the penalty for the criminal acts a foreigner may commit are punishable under Title 18 (Eighteen is the criminal code.) Improper entry is not in Title 18 and all improper entry infractions are decided in a civil forum AND deportation is NOT a criminal consequence, but rather a civil penalty.