Luis Garza is executive director of Latino-advocacy nonprofit Comunidades Unidas. Illegal re-entry, Garza says, "is very, very common." He estimates that at least one-fifth of Utah's 88,000 to 110,000 undocumented residents have gone back to their native countries—typically to be with ill or dying relatives—have been caught trying to get back into the United States and deported, with a minimum 5- or 10-year ban on returning.

They have subsequently returned without detection, "and that's the only thing they've done wrong," he says.
That my friend is a felony!