Thread: List of Deportable Offenses for Legal Immigrants

The Obama administration and numerous local government favoring sanctuary policies, or those simply intimidated by the threat of legal action for violating the 'rights' of illegal migrants, have narrowed down the focus to removing those convicted of violent offenses. The Secure Communities Program was replaced by the Priorities Enforcement Program targeting, set forth by the DHS Enforcement Memo of Nov. 20, 2014:
http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/fil...discretion.pdf

This memo applied to all aliens, while it is widely believed that the change of priority was only for illegal aliens. Therefore how DHS determined to deport legal immigrants, too, was affected. By the Congressional mandate from 1996 aliens committing certain criminal acts were supposed to be automatically deported. Below is a list of aggravated felonies considered basis for automatic deportation. And there are also "crimes or moral turpitude" forming another mandatory basis.

What I know of law enforcement is that overall it is very weak. People are able to get away with lots of things because law enforcement agencies face budget or time restraints, or personnel who are inadequately trained, or political pressure from within. In the Congressional mandate, not only are these acts deportable, but it includes immigrants (i.e people still in immigrant status) who assist, aid, abet and collude in them. Similar to assisting other criminal acts. Plus under other INA law, US citizens, too, have a duty to refrain from facilitating illegal immigration.

The bottom line is that enforcement of immigration standards across the board has suffered.

List of Aggravated Felonies and Immigration Ineligibility


People convicted of aggravated felonies are permanently ineligible for naturalization and asylum. If you have a criminal record, see an immigration law expert before making any application to the INS. Here's a layperson's list of what may constitute an aggravated felony:

• Murder.
• Rape.
• Sexual abuse of a minor.
• Drug-trafficking crimes or any illicit trafficking in any controlled substances.
• Illicit trafficking in destructive devices.
• Many firearms offenses, though a simple possession of an unlicensed firearm by a permanent resident is often not an aggravated felony.
• Any offense related to laundering of monetary instruments if the amount exceeds $10,000.
• Most offenses involving explosives or arson.
• Offenses relating to the receipt, manufacture, or possession of firearms without proper licenses or taxes.
• Most crimes of violence (not including a purely political offense) for which the term of imprisonment imposed (regardless of any suspension of such imprisonment) is at least one year.
• A theft offense (including receipt of stolen property) or burglary offense for which the term of imprisonment imposed (regardless of any suspension of such imprisonment) is at least one year.
• Ransom offenses, including using interstate communications to demand ransom or threaten kidnap; using mails to make threatening communications; making threatening communications from foreign countries; receiving, possessing, or disposing of ransom money or property.
• Child pornography offenses, including employing, using, or coercing minors to engage in pornography; selling or transferring custody of a child with knowledge that the child will be used for pornography; receiving or distributing child pornography.
• RICO (the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) offenses for which a sentence of one year imprisonment or more may be imposed.
• Offenses relating to owning, controlling, managing, or supervising a prostitution business.
• Offenses relating to involuntary servitude.
• Offenses relating to spying and national security.
• Treason and concealing and failing to disclose treason.
• Fraud or deceit crimes in which the loss to the victim exceeds $10,000.
• Income tax evasion where the loss to the government exceeds $10,000.
• Alien smuggling for commercial gain where the term of imprisonment imposed (regardless of any suspension of imprisonment) is at least one year (exception: only one offense where the person smuggled was your spouse, parent, or child).
• Document fraud under which the person's actions constitute trafficking in the documents and the sentence imposed (even if suspended) is at least one year (except where you committed the offense to assist your spouse, parent, or child).
• An offense for failing to appear for sentence where a defendant has been convicted of a crime with a possible sentence of 15 years or more.
• Offenses involving obstruction of justice, perjury, or subornation or helping another person commit perjury or bribery of a witness, for which a sentence of at least one year may be imposed.
• Offenses relating to commercial bribery, forgery, counterfeiting, or trafficking in vehicles, for which a sentence of at least one year may be imposed.
• Offenses committed by an alien ordered previously deported.
• Offenses relating to the failure to appear in court for a criminal offense for which a sentence of two or more years may be imposed.
• Any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the above acts, committed within the United States.
• Any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of these acts violating a law in a foreign country where the term of imprisonment was completed within the previous 15 years.

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i would deport them for less then this but the first thing i would do it's to stop them coming in US