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Originally Posted by RedFred
Are you fucking stupid? You don't even know what the hell a Federal crime means. What country do you live in?
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https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/polit...nal/index.html
Here CNN has more
The penalty for this type of violation of immigration law is deportation, and according to the ACLU, "civil removal proceedings far outnumber criminal prosecutions and remain the primary manner in which the federal authorities enforce the immigration laws."
If, however, an undocumented immigrant is deported and then returns to the US without permission, then that "illegal re-entry" constitutes a
federal offense with different tiers of accompanying prison time.