While courts have protected undocumented immigrants' civil liberties, some argue that those protections are being ignored.
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Over the last many years, States and localities of United States have increased its consideration as well as used the state and local laws to impose Criminal penalties on undocumented immigrants and the other hand, The federal government of United States has increasingly chosen to criminally prosecute individuals who illegally enter the United States. <u>There have been various public debates related to criminalizing of undocumented immigrants as they are a threat to the community and they are often termed as ‘Criminal aliens'. But this term is not a legal term and undocumented immigrants are not considered as ‘Criminal aliens' under Federal law. Federal immigration laws are enforced through civil proceedings which are administrated by the Department of Homeland Security.
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There are very few Immigration violations that are designated as crimes but civil removal proceedings outnumber criminal prosecutions.<u> The courts of the United States have given some protection to undocumented immigrants concerning their civil liberties but many undocumented immigrants believe that their protections are being ignored.
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Answer details:
Grade – High School
Subject – History
Chapter – Undocumented Immigrants
Keywords –Homeland Security, Immigrants, Undocumented immigrants, United States, Civil Liberties, Criminal proceedings, civil removal, prosecutions, illegal, community.
