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Tom Homan: “It is a crime, a crime to enter this country illegally.”

Featuring: Tom Homan, Border Czar, Trump Administration | National

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Published | Video Starts at 05:08

Well, I was going to say he's not very intelligent. Go to Title 8, United States Code 1324, 1325, 1326. It is a crime, a crime to enter this country illegally. And we prosecute a lot of people for 1325. If they've been deported before it came back, we prosecute them under 1326, which is a re entry, which is a felony. (05:08–05:13)

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Asserts that entering the United States illegally is a crime.

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