Illegal re-entry is top federal crime, what can be done to stop re-entry by these deported illegals?

[eorl]

If illegals are coming back faster than we are deporting them, how is our border secure as obama has been claiming?
How should we handle these felons who sneak back into the country after being deported?


Illegal re-entry is the top federal criminal charge

By Elizabeth Aguilera
7:18 p.m., June 20, 2011

Illegal re-entry into the United States accounted for nearly one-quarter of all federal prosecutions and almost half of all immigration prosecutions in the first half of the year, making it the top federal criminal charge, according to Justice Department data.

The statistics, analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, showed that convictions under the felony law, typically resulted in an average sentence of 14 months in prison. Undocumented immigrants who are apprehended and have been previously processed into the immigration system for illegal entry or other immigration related violations face charges of illegal reentry.

Illegal entry, when an individual is caught for the first time entering the U.S. illegally, is the second most common immigration crime and is considered a misdemeanor, which averages a sentence of one month in custody, according to the report.

The Justice Department data showed 18,552 new prosecutions in the first half of 2011 for illegal re-entry, according to the Clearinghouse report. If the trend continues the figures for the year are expected to rise 3.5 percent compared to fiscal year 2010 when there were 35,836 prosecutions total for this charge, according to the analysis.

Read the report: Illegal Reentry Becomes Top Criminal Charge
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/251/

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jun/20/illegal-reentry-is-the-top-federal-criminal-charge/

[alburt]

Cruel and unusual punishment.

[jarel]

Basic solution : grid the border and chip them. Reentry sets off notification, track, find, execute. Publish pictures, watch the numbers drop.

[ashly]

the same thing that should be done to prevent the 1st entry. we can deport all we want but it wont make the least bit of difference until we reform our system. it is unrealistic to think that every inch of of our border can be patrolled, not to mention the fiscal nightmare that would be. We must use other methods of combating illegal immigration. that is through legislation.

[garbhach65]

The basic statutory maximum penalty for reentry after deportation is a fine under title 18, imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or both. However, with regard to an alien whose "removal" was subsequent to a conviction for commission of three or more misdemeanors involving drugs, crimes against the person, or both, or a felony (other than an aggravated felony), the statutory maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years. Moreover, if deportation was subsequent to conviction for an aggravated felony, the statutory maximum term of imprisonment is 20 years.