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Old 07-31-2015, 12:02 PM   #66
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Please tell me where I'm going wrong.
Primarily because being on US soil illegally isn't a crime, it's a civil violation. If an undocumented person has criminal charges against them they certainly can be held, but when ICE requests a person be detained simply to evaluate deportation priority there isn't a lot of legal justification from what I've read.
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