ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record

Didn't someone try this private prison thing with US citizens, and there was a strongly negative backlash?

 

Overstaying a visa or crossing illegally is a civil offense. At worse, a misdemeanor. When it comes to serious, felony crimes, immigrants both documented and undocumented are less likely to commit one compared to citizens.

 

is she here illegally? she has had 47 years to fix it and CHOSE not to- time to pay the piper

 

That is actually false. An overstay on a visa, for example, is not a criminal violation. BTW, that is very good news for our first lady, who illegally worked while on a visa that would not allow one to work.

 

How does one in her situation "fix it?"

 

Generally, someone who enters undocumented and is eligible for deportation cannot get a green card unless they go back to their home country and apply for I've. There's no piper to pay.

 

she had 47 years to fix this

 

Donald Trump agrees with this message. In fact, Trump is asking all Americans to stop paying attention to non-immigrant Americans who have been convicted of felonies, except to prevent them from being incarcerated, especially after they leave political office.

 

What part of she tried to but there are few, if any avenues available to her do you not understand?

 

You have already stated the years that she was here. How does one "fix it" without committing crimes (such as lying on official documents)? Tell me the pathway to legality here.

 

didn’t Elon become a naturalized American citizen?

 

go back home and apply legally

 

Apply for what? There isn't some magic application for immigration. So she returns to an authoritarian country without a US embassy and applies for what type of visa and under what justification?

 

Yes, by lying on his forms when he converted his student visa (when he would have had to have affirmed that he had not violated the student visa when he had), in violation of the law.

 

Musk originally entered legally on a student visa. He worked before he got a work visa, but having first entered on a visa, getting citizenship is possible. When first entering illegally, it is not unless you return back to your home country.

For a woman from Iran after the regime change, returning was likely a death sentence for this woman. Still is. She was allowed to stay legally likely under temporary protection orders, but she was always eligible for deportation. And again, darn near impossible for her to get a green card.

So sky deport her now? It's she a hardened criminal with a long record? A danger to anyone? No. She should have retained her temp protected status indefinitely.

 

that is her problem- we have rules she thought she could somehow skirt the rules- oh well now she is being deported