if the illegal immigrants are to be considered felons, are they going to be prosecuted and imprisoned?
600801
if the choice comes down to wanting a better life and being able to feed your family or not being able to feed your family....  90% of us would be considered felons!!!!
510051
Yes, illegal is a crime in America.
589569
if they are then they have a warrant and there must be a very good reason for doing so.  if they do it illegally then it just ruins their case against the suspect
413118
No.  They are breaking several law potentially. \n1. no proper documentation\n2. those who purchace fraudulent documents are guilty of fraud\n3. Those that cross the border are guilty of trespassing by crossing private property\n4. those that hire guides to get them in this country are guilty of conspiracy\n\nCriminals should prosper from their crime
851412
I don't understand how my tax money would be involved if they sued anybody.\n\nAnyway, I think if they are in the country illegally, they should be arrested on the court steps on their way to the trial involving their suit - along with the employer who hired them and the dirt bag lawyer representing the employer.\nThis nonsense has gone far enough.......
548632
Ouch, sorry to hear that because you are going to get served with some pretty bad consequences.  Are you an illegal immigrant or an American citizen/legal immigrant that brought them over?  If you are the former you will probably just be deported.  If you are the latter you are probably going to jail.
1112323
Illegal immigration is not a crime.\n\nHe would serve the same sentence as a citizen. Upon completion, he would be deported.\n\nResponse to comment following this one:\n\nIllegal immigration is a minor offense and is not considered a "crime." It is equivalent to a traffic ticket.
850999
If a person has no identification papers they are held as a "john doe", and until they can run a finger print confirming their identity through Interpol they can not release them into the U.S or put them back into Mexico unless they have Mexican ID. what is their Salvadorian nationals or Hondurans.  Anyway after some check on wants and warrant the person is identified.  If they haven't committed any other crime except trying to cross the border illegally, which is a US crime in and of itself, they will deport the person back to their place of origin (birth).  If they have committed a crime that prosecution is mandatory then the end up getting a prison sentence anyway and then get deported.
1168149
Illegals are CRIMINAL lawbreakers!!!!! So,the people who HELP them,are aiding and abetting in a CRIME!!! I don't CARE if they are "poor people,who want to feed their family"!! We have our OWN poor people in THIS country,that we should help FIRST!!!\n The ILLEGALS need to be deported,and  FOREVER FORFEIT any right to become a citizen!!! The people who have WAITED to do things right,make it easier for THEM to come here!!!\n\n\nAnd for all the "bleeding hearts",YES it IS a crime to SNEAK into this country,to NOT pay taxes and/or use STOLEN and FAKE i.d.'s to work here!!! (THOSE are felonys!!)
618752
No LEGALLT They Cant...But They DO VOTE\n\n-- Antonio Villaraigosa \nMayor- Los Angeles, California-"ELECTED" by the VOTES of ILLEGAL ALIENS - \n Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws - \n Villaraigosa Proclaimed, and I Quote \n"This bill in Congress is wrong. The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." \nYeah!!! He Actually said that. \nPeople should make No Mistake about it -Villaraigosa's Allegiance is to Mexico, NOT California or These United States of America.                                  http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Villy-Treasonous-Mayor.htmlhttp://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1281\n\nSenor Villaraigosa is A Member Of  "MEChA"  and  " LA RAZA"
457280
yes being here illegally is a crime. like u have a point on "just and liberty for all" but you dont always have to come here illegally. its not like people are going around searching to take someone back to mexico but if the police or watever find out they may send you back or just fine you BIG TIME
521114
Yes.  If the nation offers a war criminal amnesty, then they will not be prosecuted.
341960
If Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO (ANY EMPLOYER) of any business that was caught employing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS went to jail for a year - \nNO EXCEPTIONS - \nThen within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying to get out of the United States And Back To Whatever Country They Came From\n\nThey Cant Work - They Wont Stay\nNO Deportation Costs\nThey Wont Come Back
373336
Entering and remaining in the country without documented permission is a misdemeanor.  \n\nRepresenting yourself as someone else in order to obtain work is fraud and identity theft, felonies.\n\nThe misdemenaor is cheap and easy to prove.  Felonies are expensive to prosecute and harder to convict on--there are so many illegal aliens to capture that it is most expedient to slap the misdemeanor on them and deport them quickly.  That is the current working theory anyway.  Great success, huh?
434253
Please note, there are quite a number of illegal immigrants in our prisons and jails, for rape, murder, drug smuggling and theft. Because they crossed the border illegally, it means that criminals also crossed the border. Without a system, anybody can come in, no matter how diseased or criminal.\n\nAmazingly enough, not all law-breaking illegal immigrants are honest and hard-working people.
675736
you are mistaken.There are basically two types of criminals.\na felon is anybody who committed and was convicted of a crime with a penalty of more than one year in jail. A misdemeanor is  a crime punishable by less than one year in prison.\nThe determining factor is the exact words of the law that make the act a crime. entering a country illegally is probably punishable by more than one year in jail so it is a felony. a person if NOT a felon until he has been convicted. until then he is just a suspect or defendant. The authorities usually do not try an illegal migrant worker on these felony charges but just send them back home. The sherriff of Maricopa County in Arizona wants to arrest them and try them and put them in jail. This would be as good as a job to most and like a country club vacation to them after living in Mexicao. So better to send them back and let Mexico support them.\n\n Civil trespass is  merely a TORT, not a crime( usually) The typical state law allows a landowner or person entitled to possession, like a tenant, to sue another for the tort of tresspass. it is not punishable by any jail time . The person who is accused and sued and adjudged liable for this tort is called a tortfeasor, not a criminal.  There are no civil crimes per se, but some do cross the line, such as civil harrasment and are sort of a crime and sort of a tort.
610013
They are as far as I am concerned. Most of America feels this way, and wont work for these tyrants. Illegal immigrants are being taken advantage of by criminals. When Congress moves to a Democrat congress they will be indicted and fined. The Republicans know this and are trying to put all of the problem on the Latinos. I say make sure the Latinos vote Democrat if they want any retribution. America will never deport the ones that are already here in America and are established. Democrats don't treat people that way.