Illegal Means Illegal: Every Illegal Migrant Is a Criminal

Illegal Means Illegal: Every Illegal Migrant Is a Criminal

Every person who crosses our border illegally has committed a federal offense. That makes them criminals by definition.

Immigration Nation

By Theodore Dalrymple It is many years since I retired from medical practice, but even in those days I had many illegal immigrants among my patients. They had claimed asylum, and most of them were indeed fleeing from personal situations, not usually of political persecution, that were deeply unpleasant. In my view they were all illegal immigrants rather than true asylum seekers because they had not claimed such asylum in the first safe country i…