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To: Lane3 who wrote (14942)	3/24/2006 9:04:30 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 540884

I'm not a lawyer but I am 99% sure that immigration violations are always criminal offenses, including hiring illegal aliens. One topic where I don't agree with many pro-immigration types is the howling and screaming when someone is locked up "just for immigration offenses". Hey, you enter a country illegally and get caught, you go to the slammer and then get deported. That's how the rules are written everywhere I have ever been. The issue of resources and will to do that with every illegal is a whole separate issue. Violating your visa status is a criminal offense, pure and simple.

To: Lane3 who wrote (14942)	3/24/2006 12:25:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540884

Agree with Dale, illegal immigration is a crime. What they are talking about now, I believe, is ratcheting up the penalties for employers, who have the most to lose. They can't just run away.