Illegal entry into the United States is a federal crime. A non-citizen who enters or attempts to enter this country without authorization faces arrest and deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“We are a government of laws, and not of men,” noted John Adams, second president of the United States.
What is it that some people don’t understand about the word “illegal”?
Walter Eno
Scarborough
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