Go look it up. The fact is, the story clearly states he went to trial in 2007: Monti also said under oath that Jimenez had previously testified in his criminal trial in 2007 that he was an illegal alien and had no legal papers to gain employment legally in the U.S.
Criminal trial? Gosh, he must've been considered a criminal. Go figure.
Maybe it’s just me, I usually wait until somebody’s actually been convicted of a crime before I call them a criminal. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.
You might want to look up exactly who the charges were filed against in this case before you start calling people criminals because they’ve been charged.
You’re still missing the point, the issue here is not the question of whether someone who’s entered the country in violation of our laws can be called a “criminal”. That’s Jeff’s spin, but it’s not the issue that produced the ruling.