I hope this is not “catch and release”....
Is it true that if an illegal sets foot on American soil and is captured, they must, by law, go through a court proceeding before they can be kicked back across the border???
Most just walk away from this court thing...
Sorry to tell you, but if the illegal border crosser knows the right jargon it certainly is in most cases. There are very few meaningful consequences for illegal border crossing into this country. The approximately 25% of the federal prisoner population who are illegal immigrants are mostly there for committing “serious” crimes... murder, rape, burglary, drug trafficking, etc. etc...
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Typical government employees doing typical government work. Few of them give a rats a$$.
I have a friend who smuggles biblical materials into mainland China. He has been doing it for years. He has been caught several times. Sometimes they treat him harshly and they always give him a stern warning to never come back to China or he will be in “BIG” trouble. But like clockwork he is back in 6 months with more bibles, books, DVDs, and other Christian literature. One jurisdiction in China doesn't know what the others have done previously and sometimes not even what they have done previously. My friend just plays stupid just like illegal immigrants do here. The only difference is here we set a court date and give them benefits until it arrives a year or two later.
If a brutal communist dictatorship that by most estimates has killed approximately 80 million of its own people doesn't have the will to enforce its laws... What chance does a milquetoast bunch of namby-pambies like our border enforcement people have. That is why we need the damned wall so badly.
That won’t be happening now........catch and release is over. Now you get arrested....and if you have a child that also means you will be separated.