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Yes. Jumping the border is a misdemeanor if you don't immediately self report to request asylum.

But the majority of people getting rounded up right now are for unlawful presence.

And a lot of them have no idea that their presence was marked unlawful until ICE gets them. There's a reason civil offenses are supposed to be handled with proper notification and court summonses instead of this shit.



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