What's the problem? You're ALL from Cloud Cuckooland anyway! :-)

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>>>Ok John, you're a cop. Explain to me what criminal act a 20 year old committed by allowing his parents to sneak him into the country at the age of 3. Now you want to kick him out and send him to a country he never knew. Can a 3 year old engage in criminal behaviour?
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>>That is an excellent question! A crime requires two things - actus mens and actus reas (I think I spelled those correctly). A criminal act coupled with a criminal deed. However, some crimes are prima facia (on the face of it). I would say the parents are guilty of criminal acts and the child is also. The child's crime is an ongoing crime. As long as they are in this country illegally, they are persisting the criminal behavior. As to the 20 year old, that person is an adult and as I said above it's an ongoing criminal act.
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>>Now, "what do you do with those people" is another question.
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>>What would you do? Do we continue to allow illegals to innundate us? Do we continue to let them come here, use our resources without paying anything more than sales tax, send American dollars back to Mexico, etc.?
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>Allowing illegals to 'continue to inundate' us is not the same issue as kicking out the current ones. The borders should be seen to, and anyone caught within a certain time frame (say 7 years?) should be turfed out. However, I'm not so certain that it's useful or economically worthwhile to turf out those who've been here 20 years contributing to the economy the whole while.
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>There is a statute of limitations on most crimes (with a few exceptions), and I can't see that this one is so heinous as to not be one of the exceptions. This is not akin to murder.