Prosecution is rare because the penalties are so small and the prosecutors make their careers convictions that produce headlines, not from putting criminals away for 6 months. Were they doing their jobs it might be hard to prove the criminal entered the country illegally but it would be easy to prove they “Eluded examination or inspection by immigration officers” while here and the criminals would be looking at doing 6 months for their crimes.
If the criminal is also working he has committed perjury when he falsified and signed the I9 form all people must sign to be employed. The perjury charge is a felony and a no-brainer to prove. Perjury can get a perp 5 years in a federal pen. The federal prosecutors are just not bringing the charges.
And the point is well taken: the laundry list of crimes that the illegal commits are almost never prosecuted.
That fact rarely comes up in the debate. But this is not an accident: "talking down" illegal immigration as a crime is a deliberate propaganda initiative begun in the 1970's by the sedition organizations such as La Raza Unida, and guys like Bert Corona, the inventor of the Marxist phrase "undocumented worker".
It is commonplace for them to insist illegal immigration is not a crime, 8 USC 1325 notwithstanding. It is simply a lie, and if repeated enough times (a Saul Alinsky tactic), people start to repeat it.
But many people understand that now, and prosecutions are starting again. Prior to the 1970's they were commonplace in the Southwest.
Illegals commit many crimes either knowingly or unknowingly. The first act begets a series of ongoing crimes which are not single point but persistent.
Thus "amnesty" for them is a monstrosity: they literally escape prosecution for many crimes, and never even so much as have a record. Once amnestied, it's like it all never happened. And they can be police, doctors, judges, politicians, soldiers with access to high class weaponry, even security clearances. Every nook and cranny of American life is available to them once off the immigration hook.
Where's the justice in that?
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