Posted on 05/31/2025 10:17:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Some judges have tossed charges against unauthorized immigrants who fail to register with the federal government under a new Trump administration initiative.
The Justice Department is wielding a little-known law to criminally charge unauthorized immigrants who have failed to register their presence in the country, threatening them with potential jail time and fines under a new Trump administration initiative.
The first prosecutions came just days after authorities on April 11 resurrected a federal registration requirement, used during World War II, to meet the goals of an executive order from President Donald Trump. Administration officials described the regulation, which mandates that people 14 and older provide fingerprints and home addresses, as a national security precaution that will allow authorities to more closely track the whereabouts of millions of immigrants in the United States.
But the Justice Department’s early attempts to win convictions against those who fail to register have faced skepticism and defeats before some federal judges. And the initiative has been met with sharp opposition from immigrant advocates, who warn that registering with the government could expose migrants to a greater risk of deportation.
Since April 11, when the Department of Homeland Security established a new immigrant registration form, prosecutors have used a statute created in 1940 to charge dozens of people across the country with failing to sign up — a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to six months in prison and $5,000 in fines.
Although most cases are in the early stages of adjudication, at least six in which defendants challenged the charges have been thrown out by judges or withdrawn by prosecutors amid questioning from the courts, according to a Washington Post analysis of court records. More than a dozen others have already pleaded guilty.
In some instances, judges chided prosecutors for relying on a statute that has...
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So judges ingore the law? We know that. Now they will be charged as the criminals they are paving the way to be sent away and try again.
If the law has never been repealed isn’t it still valid even if it wasn’t enforced for some time?
Police don’t enforce speeding laws in our city after the George Floyd incident so doesn’t that mean I can drive however I wish from now on? If they did pull me over couldn’t I simply say I didn’t see the speed limit sign?
It seems like the logic the judges are using.
They all knew this law was coming down-ignorance?
Self-deportees have numbered only a few.
Registrations-no mention of how many are following the rules.
Let’s just say there are 20 million left to go.
illegal immigrant
undocumented immigrant
Now….. unauthorized immigrant.
More silly word games from the Wash Compost.
triple post.
Thats a first!
Illegal Aliens
I voted for that.
Worse than ignoring the law, the radical leftist judges are instead giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. For that the DOJ should charge them and have them arrested, then perpwalked in handcuffs and leg irons to jail.
One effect of this is that the SCOTUS will likely get involved.
Now if the SCOTUS majority supports the radical leftist judges, and since Congress contains too many gutless cowards or traitorous members to legislate against or impeach and convict these judges, that means that two of three branches of the federal government (not to mention the Deep-Staters still infecting the Executive Branch) are betraying our nation and the Constitution.
That does not bode well for the future of the United States.
Little-known law speaking of corrupt judges................
it is a law on the books
but leftist activists with the job title judge dont like that law
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