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0 pointsKennyBlanken1y ago0 comments

Immigration violations are not criminal matters, they're civil. Further, they're federal, not state.

You cannot be held by law enforcement or the judiciary for being accused of a civil violation.

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I thought they were misdemeanor crimes [0] punishable by jail time.

So they are crimes, but not huge.

I’m not a lawyer or a law enforcement officer, but I thought that local law enforcement can certainly hold someone charged with a federal crime. Eg, if someone commits the federal crime of kidnapping, then local cops can detain that person until transferred to FBI.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325

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