Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward

ABC News ^ | 4-10-25 | Rebecca Santana

[Strict9]

The requirement goes into effect Friday. Failure to register is considered a crime, and people will be required to carry registration documents with them or risk prison time and fines. Registration will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older without legal status. People registering have to provide their fingerprints and address, and parents and guardians of anyone under age 14 must ensure they registered.

The registration process also applies to Canadians who are in the U.S. for more than 30 days, such as so-called snowbirds who spend winter months in places like Florida.

[Strict9]

And show them the door. This is what I voted for 3 effing times. Do it. Pull the trigger. You go. You all go. Men, women and children. If you don’t go willingly, then you will be staring at guns. I hope this is the beginning.

[Red Badger]

And they must wear their underwear on the outside.............

[Strict9]

If there really is going to be a Golden Age, this is how you do it. Without these bloodsucking leeches draining us, robbing, raping and shooting us, taking advantage out of us on a daily basis, who knows— we might even have the ability to go to Mars. Who knows. Go Trump.

[Gay State Conservative]

Another thing that Maoist lawyers and organizations can use to delay...and to get rulings that a particular wetback can stay.It's already a Federal crime to be present in the US without standard...long established...authorization.

[sit-rep]

Btt!!

[Fledermaus]

So the same illegal aliens that break the law coming here, gey caught and released, don’t show for their court date, etc will suddenly follow a court ruling?

What am I missing.

[asinclair]

Hmmm...I think this is the start of the era of EVERYONE being required to carry "papers." The first thing a cop will ask for is some kind of ID. In Nevada, "ID" is defined in the NRS as name, address, and birth date. (I carry cards with my last name, the year of my birth, and the ZIP code where I live, when asked for ID outside of the driver's seat of a vehicle.)

Passport books and cards aren't enough.

This will end badly; every citizen, every one of them, will need to get RealID as part of an identity card or drivers license. Not just to fly, or board an interstate train.

Is this really the American Way?

[Strict9]

well, The American Way isn’t letting 75 million Aztec Indians walk across the border and take up residence. something is certainly better than nothing. Since the 1960’s this country has literally been circling the drain Yiu can’t turn around on a dime so a little pain is expected. Let them be afraid. I don’t care if little 9 year old Paco cries himself to sleep. Hit the bricks, Paco. You and your little dog too. (chihuahua)

[PLMerite]

...so we can check.

[IndispensableDestiny]

I’m old enough to remember when all resident aliens (legal, green card) had to to register annually at the post office.

[logi_cal869]

...or risk prison time and fines.

What happened to deportation as a penalty???

[Ronald77]

Its a crime to enter the U.S. illegally, so what makes registration any different.

[joshua c]

this kicks it up a notch

to encourage self deport

[joshua c]

entering illegally is civil

this is criminal

[drypowder]

Yeah, like that’s going to work.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

you won a free tv

[rolling_stone]

. Alien Registration Requirements of the INA

The Alien Registration Act of 1940, also known as the Smith Act, was enacted into law on June 28, 1940.

See

Public Law 76-670, 54 Stat. 670. The Act generally required all aliens in the country beyond 30 days to apply to register and to be fingerprinted. Congress later incorporated these requirements, as amended, in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, Public Law 82-414, 66 Stat. 163. The registration and fingerprinting requirements currently appear, as amended, in part VII of subchapter II of chapter 12 of title 8, United States Code (8 U.S.C. 1301-1306). Throughout this preamble, we refer to such requirements as the alien registration requirements, or the alien registration requirements of the INA.

Under the alien registration requirements of the INA, with limited exceptions (

e.g.,

for visa holders who have already been registered and fingerprinted (through their application for a visa) and A and G visa holders,

see8 U.S.C. 1201(b)), all aliens above the age of 14 who remain in the United States for 30 days or longer must apply for registration and to be fingerprinted before the expiration of 30 days.

See8 U.S.C. 1302(a). Similarly, parents and legal guardians must ensure that their children below the age of 14 are registered. Within 30 days of reaching his or her 14th birthday, the alien child must “apply in person for registration and to be fingerprinted.” 8 U.S.C. 1302(b). The Secretary of Homeland Security (“Secretary”) may, in her discretion and on the basis of reciprocity pursuant to such regulations as she may prescribe, waive the requirement of fingerprinting specified in 8 U.S.C. 1302(a) and (b) in the case of any nonimmigrant. 8 U.S.C. 1302(c). As discussed in the next section, the Secretary has exercised this authority with respect to certain nonimmigrants.

An alien’s willful failure or refusal to apply to register or to be fingerprinted is punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to six months, or both. 8 U.S.C. 1306(a).[1]

The same applies to an alien’s parent or legal guardian’s willful failure or refusal to register.

Id.

Any alien or any parent or legal guardian of an alien who files a registration application “containing statements known by him to be false, or who procures or attempts to procure registration of himself or through another person by fraud” is subject to criminal prosecution. 8 U.S.C. 1306(c);

see, e.g.,18 U.S.C. 1001, 1546. A conviction for fraudulent registration constitutes a ground of deportability under 8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(3)(B)(i).

[AZJeep]

Yes, that used to be the law of the land>
These people were also required to make some statement of what did they do that last year,

They stopped enforcing it, but, I think, it is still on the books.

[logi_cal869]

Dramatically higher employer penalties would help.

[Islander7]

...Canadians who are in the U.S. for more than 30 days, such as so-called snowbirds who spend winter months in places like Florida...

I hated snowbird season. Bunch smug SOBs.