Hey!
Have you heard that crossing the border outside of a point of entry is a civil offense, akin to jay walking?
If you have, you were lied to. This lie is being spread all over TikTok, yet again.
You can make an argument that it should be a civil offense. That’s fine. I’m all about people getting involved and pushing for the change they want.
Even if it isn’t the change I want.
I’m NOT all about doing it with riots, arson, vandalism and violence, but that should go without saying.
It used to go without saying.
Sadly, these days I have to say it and now you’re reading it, so it’s affecting us both, even in spite of the fact that no one has blown either of us up.
So far.
That’s not a threat.
Finding something that works for the most people is how we move forward.
However, at the moment, it is a criminal offense. It was made a criminal offense because, at the time, it was what worked for most people and not enough people have gone through the motions to say, “Hey, this isn’t working for me and we need to change it.”
There are reasons for that I won’t get into at the moment, not the least of which is the system haven gotten so large and unwieldy that people don’t feel like they can change it.
And so, a criminal offense it remains.
It’s a criminal offense to try to cross and fail. It’s a criminal offense to get deported and make re-entry.
It’s probably a criminal offense to get deported and attempt re-entry and fail, since it’s a criminal offense to do both things separately, but they don’t expressly say that.
I guess there’s a certain point where the repetition gets redundant and they weren’t trying, in the legal code, to use it to be mildly humorous the way I am trying to use it in this post.
But hey, if we can’t laugh at serious things, like the United States Code, what can we laugh at?
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