What crimes are causes for immigration hold?

ANY CHARGE, IF YOU ARE ILLEGAL.

Being illegal, you are already a criminal. They stop you for any reason and find that you are illegal, then you can be held.

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Any charges, even a traffic stop can result in an immigration hold. The hold is not for the crime, it's for not having a valid document (visa) granting a foreign person permission to be in the United States.

The immigration hold is to make sure the person does not run off before deportation proceedings can get brought against him/her.

Crimes of Moral Turpitude, such as drug distribution, human trafficking, prostitution, murder, assault, illegal weapon possession etc.

Also, terrorism, espionage, threat to public safety or the government, visa fraud, forgery of document, misrepresentation of documents to obtain green card etc. Any other federal crimes could cause immigrant's detainment and could cause deportation.

when the authorities takes u to jail and ur not citizen then hold will be placed for 48 hrs til INS come n pick u up.if not they have to let u loose..

All felonys and all convictions newer than 10 years.