Trump has suggested that “homegrown” criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.
If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?
That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.
Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.
You cannot “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador or any other country. You can, however, kidnap and exile them. Let’s respect language, oh great media overlords.
They shouldn’t have been using the word “deport” in the first place for sending people to prison. “Deport” implies sending back to their own country, not imprisoning them
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He also thinks it’s a crime to disagree with him. There will be lots of people being deported shortly before midterms.
Ah, but Democrats will fight back by (1) pointing out that it’s against the rules, (2) waiting for him to acknowledge his error and apologize, and (3) voting for their own imprisonment.
Spoiler - so very many things donnie dumbass has been doing since taking office are illegal.
Since when has “obviously illegal” ever stopped him.
He’s done a lot of obviously illegal things. One might even say he’s become accustomed to not being held accountable for doing illegal things.
Its really depressing that all the “resistance” we can offer is to pout and go “BUT THATS ILLEGAL” while our supposed opposition party votes to confirm every nominee and pass every barbaric bill by this admin…
We’re almost certainly fucked. It is depressing.
almost
Optimistic person I see?
It’s like watching a crook invade a bunch of houses, vandalizing and arsoning, and all the police are doing is confirming that these actions are illegal
The opposition needs to be talking about a general strike.
Wait because they might actually go on strike and… like doing even less than before, you have to word it better!
Pretending that the law matters during a fascist coup is not productive.
Oh and who is going to stop him and the administration? Not the party in power and not the pathetic opposition party.
What’s the next chapter in this story? Some hackers leak the personal info of all ICE grunts and they gets involved in all kind of accidents? In the last century, in Germany, moderates got declared undesirable anyway so now that they have a chance to organize beforehand. Some states ban ICE altogether and becomes safe havens? It’s easy being mesmerized and keep on with “but that’s illegal” , do something else happen? A few millions angry Americans can’t all fit in a 40000 person prison.
They could fit if you process it, like turning into pounder or something
It’s OBVIOUSLY Illegal? Dang! That’s going to STOP our Law And Order President!
Trump is a relic of a system that already died in 1-1-2000. 9-11 was a final attempt to enforce the 20th century Rockefeller economy. The system has collapsed. We had 25 years to adapt. Oh right and this article is about another loop in the law attempt.
“Nuh-uh, you can’t do that, it’s against the rules”
Rules don’t mean a thing, kid. The bigger kid makes the rules as long as there are no adults in the room
