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Border: Border Crossers and Enforcement Priority

border: That could include people arrested for shoplifting or minor offences or simply having crossed the border illegally, according to CBC. The Trump administration memos replace narrower guidance focusing on immigrants who have been convicted of serious crimes, are considered threats to national security or are recent border crossers. Any immigrant who is in the country illegally and is charged or convicted of any offence, or even suspected of a crime, will now be an enforcement priority, according to Homeland Security Department memos signed by Secretary John Kelly. Under Barack Obama's administration guidance, immigrants whose only violation was being in the country illegally were generally left alone. Crossing the border illegally is a criminal offence, and the new memos make clear that those who have done so are included in the broad list of enforcement priorities. Those immigrants fall into two categories those who crossed the border without permission and those who overstayed their visas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.