{"id":322,"date":"2025-01-27T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:23:47","slug":"is-illegal-immigration-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Illegal Immigration a Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Over<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> at the <em>Stack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.findlaw.com\/blotter\/2014\/07\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime-improper-entry-v-unlawful-presence.html\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\">It is.<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\">&#0160;Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats lied to us about this. Illegal immigrants are subject to&#0160;<em>criminal<\/em>&#0160;penalties. While improper entry is a crime, unlawful presence is not a crime. One can be unlawfully present in the U. S. without having entered improperly, and thus without having committed a crime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime\">Read it all<\/a>.&#0160; Very short.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Stack. It is.&#0160;Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats lied to us about this. Illegal immigrants are subject to&#0160;criminal&#0160;penalties. While improper entry is a crime, unlawful presence is not a crime. One can be unlawfully present in the U. S. without having entered improperly, and thus without having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/is-illegal-immigration-a-crime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Illegal Immigration a Crime?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}