Deportation Law
24th January 2026
You may have noticed that many people criticize the deportations by saying that overstaying a visa isn’t a criminal act but is a civil offense. They’re right that it’s not criminal – although many of those being rounded up are also guilty of crimes. But let’s just stick with overstaying a visa. The fact that it’s a civil offense does not protect the alien; in fact, it removes the protection afforded to defendants in criminal cases. Nor are those people who’ve overstayed visas (or otherwise entered illegally, but are not criminals) being given prison sentences, as in the criminal system. They are being deported, which is a civil action.
You will no doubt have seen headlines in the Narrative Media about illegal immigrants being deported who ‘have no crimila record’. Whether or not they have a criminal record is irrelevant. They are here illegally, and are subject to deportation when caught.
The government does not need to prove you committed a crime to remove you; it only needs to prove you are removable under immigration law.
Exactly so.