No matter how good or bad the person, no matter what crimes the person has or hasn't committed, all people, by law, are entitled to due process. Citizenship status doesn't matter. Entering the country illegally doesn't matter. Under the laws of the United States, all people are entitled to due process.
If we don't follow our own laws, we're no better than the illegals we wish to banish.
I can't believe I have to feed these facts to Americans. Some of you self-professed patriots have no idea what our constitution says, our how our government functions.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
The Supreme Court extended these constitutional protections to
all aliens within the United States, including those who entered unlawfully, declaring that aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law.3 The Court reasoned that aliens physically present in the United States, regardless of their legal status, are recognized as persons guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
4 Thus, the Court determined, [e]ven one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.
5 Accordingly, notwithstanding Congress’s indisputably broad power to regulate immigration, fundamental due process requirements notably constrained that power with respect to aliens within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
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Many of you here should be ashamed you don't know this. Deeply ashamed. Go read the constitution if you wish to maintain even a little self-respect.
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