...Currently, being in this country illegally IS a civil misdemeanor offense....
Its a misdemeanor crime -for commission of first offense up to 6 months imprisonment, felony for second offense- up to 2 years imprisonment in addition to any civil fines. This has been pointed out to you before...
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=8&sec=1325
I was talking about first offense - sorry of that was not clear.