Can legal or illegal aliens be deported?
Both potentially can be deported. One would think that illegal aliens that never had any status in the U.S. at all could be deported immediately, but that would be too easy. Unless illegal aliens agree to leave the U.S. voluntarily, they fall into the federal litigation bureaucracy of Immigration Court, and may even wind up with a “green card” before the process is over. Legal aliens are subject to deportation if they commit certain crimes classified as “deportable offenses” under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Fortunately, having a “green card” doesn’t mean having a free pass for a foreign national to commit crimes in the U.S. Unlike our own citizen criminals, alien criminals are under the threat of deportation because of their actions. But under the way the system is set up now, the United States does not take full advantage of this incredible luxury of bring able to clean house and get rid of all of its foreign criminals. Because once in deportation proceedings, many criminal
