S.N January 29, the second Trump administration held the first second White House Press Brief. “Of the 3,500 arrests have made Ice to date since President Trump has returned to his post, can you just tell us the numbers?” Request a correspondent in the front class. “How many criminal records are against those who are only in the country illegally?”
“All of them,” the new White House journalist, Caroline Levitte, who first appeared in the briefing room, responded, “because they broke the laws of our nation illegally, and therefore, they are criminals, as much as this administration goes.” She continued: “I know that the last administration did not see it in this way, so it is a great cultural transformation in our nation to look at a person who breaks the laws of immigration as a criminal. But this is exactly what they are.”
Levitt’s answer was the stolen Maga Media and a virus went in the conservative circles, with a Expressive fire From the daily wire correspondent, a Bullseye emojis From the Heritage Foundation, and Microphone drop emotional symbols From the Republican Study Committee.
It was also completely, completely, completely, mistake. In reality. A rude lie.
In the eyes of this administration, both immigrants who do not hold “illegal immigrants” and these “illegal immigrants”, Ergo, are all “criminals”.
However, on many levels, this is not true. It is a common legend pushed by the right that needs an urgent exposure.
First, people are not. neverIllegal. He was the Nobel Prize winner and former Auschwitz prisoner Elie Wizel Indicate How “there is no” unlawful “because it is” a contradiction in terms of terms. People can be beautiful or less beautiful, can be fair or fair, but illegal? How can a person be illegal? “
The act can be illegal; People cannot be illegal by their nature.
Second, not only the right to immigrant immigrants, but the law is also wrong. Under the American Criminal Law, as did the American Civil Liberties Union male: “The act of being in the United States in violation of immigration laws does not stand alone, a crime.” Why? Because illegal entry is a misdemeanor, not a felony 8 United States § 1325It is subject to civil penalties, not criminal. It is “the re -entry of the foreigners” under 8 United States § 1326This is a felony and is subject to criminal punishment.
During, Almost half One of the undocumented immigrants in the United States has not entered the country illegally to start; Many of them “exaggeration“Who arrived with legal work, student, or travel visa, but he failed to leave the United States, for several reasons, before its visas ended.
The uncomfortable truth of the anti -immigrant right is that it is not a crime for immigrants simply to be present in the United States without appropriate documentation. They are not “illegitimate”. Do not take my words for that. Or Aclu. Take the word-referee 5-3 majority! From the United States Supreme Court. In 2012, in Arizona against the United StatesThe highest court court ruled that “as a rule, not a removable foreign crime in the United States,” the highest court ruled.
Did you get that? no. A. Crime.
Third, the right to hostile immigrants want to mix immigrants, especially from an unconfirmed group, with criminals-but the evidence exceeds flimsy. Remember in February when the Trump administration Claim That “Guantanamo Bay will carry the worst immigrants”? When the Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, Insist That “criminal foreign killers, rapists, predators and gangsters were shipped to Gitmo? It turns out that about one in three of these immigrants.He does not have criminal records“.
Remember in March when the Trump administration sent approximately 300 immigrants to El Salvador because they were, claiming, “Illegal foreign terroristsAnd “and”Bad people“Who committed more”TerribleIce officials later I confess In the court, “many” people who have been filled with El Salvador do not have criminal records. more and more Reports indicate that the clear justification for sending these immigrants to the foreign work camp is their lives is not a criminal record but … tattoo. On Monday, the Trump administration I confess In the court file that it detained Maryland’s father with a protected legal status and deported him to El Salvador “due to an administrative error.”
It is not surprising that this right -wing NV administration, its amazing press secretary, and its ice thugs have failed to identify actual criminals, whether violent or otherwise, among many immigrants who collected and detained and tried to deport them in recent weeks. Although Maga obsessed with immigrant criminals (Luke Riley is a killer!), Ticket after Ticket after Ticket after Ticket It confirms that the high migration does not lead to high crime rates, and in fact, immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the population born in the indigenous born. “Statistically”, Immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melinic Note“You are more secure in a tangible way that lives in a town full of an average immigrant that is not documented by a town full of medium -born citizens.”
So why can’t liberals on a larger scale, and the elected Democrats in particular, is this? And say it loudly and frequently? Why do not they refuse to slaughter the English language and the signs of American criminal law by refusing to fully framing “illegal immigrants”? And if not now-when the advanced right administration is caught Innocent Outside the streets and send them to be to torture In Gollage Foreign – then when? It is time for liberals, democrats to conservatives and Republicans that the facts do not care about their feelings. There is nothing like illegal immigrant. Unrelenting immigrants are not criminals by reality. High migration does not lead to a rise in crime.
