So if a crime of theft or assault is committed, it doesn’t go away over time, but that is what these politicians are trying to do. That goes for both sides of the aisle. This is called splitting hairs and makes our laws negligible, and they should not be.
Humanitarianism is always in Americans’ hearts, which is why this is such a deeply concerning issue. Politicians screwed this up and need to fix it; the solution is not to make everyone a citizen. Committing a felony is still a felony, yet no one wants to discuss the issue.
We need solutions, not open borders where we are clueless about the background of those crossing in the dead of night. I don’t have the solution, but it isn’t the status quo. All IMO.
https://www.courthousenews.com/justices-take-up-ice-mandatory-detention-policy/
“The Supreme Court added a major immigration dispute to its docket on Thursday, agreeing to review whether the Trump administration can impose a mandatory detention policy for long-term immigrant residents.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked the justices to reverse an appeals court ruling finding that the administration cannot treat immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for years the same as individuals who are picked up while attempting to enter the country.
The decision added to a divide between the lower courts over who can be subject to mandatory ICE detention and what rights they have while in custody. Now before the Supreme Court, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said it will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation.
“A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII,” Reichlin-Melnick wrote in a post.
Under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, “an alien seeking admission” who is “not clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted” must be detained and put through removal proceedings. The statute provides for discretionary detention and allows the government to release detainees on bond while they go through removal proceedings. Federal regulations give people detained under the statute the right to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge.
In July 2025, ICE announced in a memo that, going forward, all “applicants for admission” — defined in immigration statute as “an alien present in the United States who has not been admitted or who arrives in the United States” — in deportation proceedings would be subject to mandatory detention. Bond hearings would be reserved only for immigrants who were admitted into the country but later lost their legal status.
This meant all individuals who entered the country without being legally admitted — including those who were paroled into the country, which does not count as lawful admission — will be subject to mandatory detention and held without bond while they go through removal proceedings, regardless of how long they’ve been in the U.S.”