What to do if I stop you? These five steps could save you from being deported. So, let's talk about that for a minute. There are five things that you really need to keep at the top of your mind if you're confronted by an ICE agent. Whether you're legally in the country or illegally in the country, it doesn't matter when it comes to these five steps. Number one, don't run. Running will escalate this encounter and will get you arrested every time. Do not run from an ICE agent. Number two, stay calm but confident and make sure that your hands are visible. They'll tell you real quick to get your hands out of your pockets. Just follow their lawful commands and don't get worked up. Stay calm but confident. Number three, I don't answer questions without a lawyer should be on the tip of everybody's tongue. Stay quiet and don't answer questions. Invoke your right to remain silent early and often. Number four, ask if you're free to leave. If you're free to leave, then leave. It's very simple. If they tell you you're detained, then you're detained. But if they tell you you're not detained, you should be walking away. This is not the time to be nice. This is the time to protect yourself and if you're not being detained, walk away. And number five is kind of like number four, ask for a lawyer immediately. If you're a Doctor Judge follower, you've seen my videos. I don't answer questions without a lawyer. You can combine number four and number five. Stay silent, invoke your right to remain silent, but immediately ask for a lawyer. There is a trigger word to make the cops stop asking you questions and that's the word lawyer. You've heard me say that before. So, ask for a lawyer early and often. Some of you might ask me, "Well, what if the ICE agent escalates it? What if they immediately grab this person or they get agitated or they get aggressive?" You just have to follow these rules. These rules are all the same. They're the same at whether you're dealing with an aggressive agent or a passive agent. Stay calm, stay confident, remain silent, ask for a lawyer, and do not run. So, you say, "Hey Doctor Judge, I've got a green card or I've got a work visa or student visa. I'm legally in this country. I don't have anything to fear." Well, you'd be wrong. Here's five ways you can get deported even if you're legally in this country. Number one, you pick up a felony conviction. Felonies are very serious crimes and it's what ICE is looking for to be able to deport somebody. They're starting with the felons. They're starting with the convicted felons to deport convicted felons. Number two, picking up a certain misdemeanor convictions can be as bad as a felony. For example, certain convictions and convictions [music] can also lead to deportation even if you're legally in the country. Number three, failing to report address changes with immigration. You're here legally in this country under a green card or a work visa or some kind of work permit, you need to update your address with the immigration office regularly. If you fail to update your address, you can be deported even if you're legally in this country. Number four, staying outside the US for too long. Let's say you travel back to your home country and you stay there too long. You might lose your status by remaining out of the country for too long. So, it's important for you to not remain out of the country longer than expected. Number five, lying on immigration applications. That goes without saying. If you lie on an immigration application, absolutely if you're found out, you can be deported even if you're legally in this country. I've been hearing in the comments and in real life that they're deporting people who have no convictions, who've never been arrested. That might be happening, but it's not the norm. That's why they're starting in the jails. That's why they left Minnesota here recently. They actually pulled all 700 immigration agents out of Minnesota because the Minnesota governor finally allowed them to operate within the jails. What ICE would like to do is to operate within the jail. They want to catch the criminals while they're in the jail. If you get arrested and you get booked into the sheriff's department, the sheriff's department should work with immigration and let immigration know who they've got in their custody. That way if they've got somebody that doesn't have legal status and that person hasn't bonded out yet, immigration can be aware of them, put a hold on that person, and then they won't be able to bond out without going through immigration. Now, what some states were doing was they were blocking immigration from getting that information. They were releasing these undocumented people back on the streets, and the undocumented people are people who've been charged with criminal offenses. Now, in America, if you're charged with a criminal offense, that doesn't mean that you're a convicted criminal. There's a due process right here that you have as a citizen, and that due process right applies whether you're a US citizen or whether you're just on US soil with no status. There are certain constitutional provisions that will apply to both citizens and non-citizens in America, but suffice it to say that if you're on US soil, you have the right to due process, you have the right to an attorney if you're charged with a criminal offense, you have the right to a jury trial into the criminal process if you're charged with a criminal offense, but the sticky part about immigration is immigration issues are civil in nature. So, they don't operate under the same constitutional provisions that a criminal offense does. That's why if you're charged with a criminal offense and immigration can get that information while you're still in the jail, they would like to get custody of that person before they're released back on the street. It just makes it a lot safer for immigration, makes it safer for the community, makes it safer for the actual immigrants to be taken into custody while he's in jail, while he's under the supervision and you know he's not armed, and you know he's not going to fight back while he's in the jail. Immigration can come in and take custody of that person and then process them for deportation. Can you actually be deported before you're convicted of the criminal offense? The answer to that is yes. I have several clients who were in the process of bonding out, immigration put a hold on them, they did bond out, so the system looked at it as though they were bonded out and on the street, but immigration took custody of that person while they were in custody and then deported them and sent them to Louisiana to one of these immigration detention facilities. So, now you've got somebody who looks like they bonded out of court or looks like they bonded out of jail. They're now sent to an immigration detention facility and they can't come back and legally fight their criminal offenses. It's a huge problem that we're dealing with in many states in America. That's why we do these videos. What I tell my clients is the same thing that I tell you, follower of Dr. Judge. I tell my clients if they're an immigrant and they don't have legal status, remember these five steps that can get you deported and remember the other steps that we teach of how to deal with an immigration agent who's on your doorstep or how to deal with an immigration agent who questions you. There's lots of things that overlap here, whether it's an immigration agent or a police officer, it's really the same. I don't answer questions without a lawyer is all you should ever say to an immigration agent who asks you a question, and it's the same with the police officer. So, just treat the immigration agents like they're police officers because they basically are. They're law enforcement officers that you need to invoke your right to remain silent early and often.