U.S. to Review Cases Seeking Deportations
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: November 17, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security will begin a review on Thursday of all deportation cases before the immigration courts and start a nationwide training program for enforcement agents and prosecuting lawyers, with the goal of speeding deportations of convicted criminals and halting those of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/deportation-cases-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-reviewed.html
Commenter Crusader quotes my "You'd think they were committing serial murder instead of violating a civil (not criminal) law in order to feed their families" statement and takes exception:
Actually, they are *indeed* violating criminal law, not civil law. Civil law is the branch of law that deals with disputes between individuals--its primarily invoked in business disputes. Those that enter this country illegally have violated the *criminal* code (regardless of how harmless their intention may have been).
No More Apples: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: CIVIL OR CRIMINAL VIOLATION?
Illegal Immigration Is a Crime That Breeds More Crime:
Illegal Immigration Is a Crime That Breeds More Crime: A Typology
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: November 17, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security will begin a review on Thursday of all deportation cases before the immigration courts and start a nationwide training program for enforcement agents and prosecuting lawyers, with the goal of speeding deportations of convicted criminals and halting those of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/us/deportation-cases-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-reviewed.html
Commenter Crusader quotes my "You'd think they were committing serial murder instead of violating a civil (not criminal) law in order to feed their families" statement and takes exception:
Actually, they are *indeed* violating criminal law, not civil law. Civil law is the branch of law that deals with disputes between individuals--its primarily invoked in business disputes. Those that enter this country illegally have violated the *criminal* code (regardless of how harmless their intention may have been).
No More Apples: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: CIVIL OR CRIMINAL VIOLATION?
Illegal Immigration Is a Crime That Breeds More Crime:
Illegal Immigration Is a Crime That Breeds More Crime: A Typology