They committed a crime (crossing a border illegally). What should you call it if not illegal immigration?
What do you call robbing a bank? Undocumented withdrawal? No, it's a crime.
What do you call robbing a bank? Undocumented withdrawal? No, it's a crime.
Or in the case of asylum seekers and refugees, what is effectively being said is that it's illegal for them to flee a war zone?
Likewise for asylum seekers, it's illegal to cross into a country without permission. You can flee, apply for asylum, and enter when that asylum is granted. There are also rules on when, where, and which countries you're allowed to apply for.
These terms and concepts are not difficult, if you have no intention of misconstruing or creating outrage.
Wrong. Non-citizens who are accused of committing crimes get trials.
We should call them illegal citizens. Then we can start working towards deporting such criminals as the article demonstrates.
Well international law prevents you from making someone stateless so they get thrown in jail instead. But yes, non-citizens who commit crimes are generally deported.
Also, the US classes crimes as either felonies or misdemeanours (possibly more categories?). In Canada we have indictable crimes, summary offences and things like jaywalking aren't even crimes, just ticketable offences. It's disingenuous of you to compare something like jaywalking to actual crimes.
And in the US, jaywalking is a crime. A crime is a crime, which makes jaywalking a crime all the same. If they decided to jaywalk, then they deserve to be deported for their criminal actions.
For reference: Crossing the boarder illegally is a misdemeanor just like jaywalking.
Because we should try to improve the situation not make it worse. I'm also not sure which international law violations you're talking about.
Felony is overused at the moment, IMHO. Lawmakers that want to appear tough on crime make felonies out of non-violent crimes.