• MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      There are two ways to become a citizen in the United States:

      1. By birth
      2. By naturalization

      Both are attested by government certificates. Do you really think the government does not have access to those records? If someone is not found in either of those, what are the chances that they have a valid claim to citizenship?

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        22 hours ago

        Do you not know what “due process” is, then?

        The government checking a database for records and ensuring those are correct and in line with the information the accused has (via a judicial body), IS DUE PROCESS.

        What are the chances? This isn’t the fucking casino, it’s people’s legal rights, which are also YOUR legal rights, and they are proved by evidence, not odds.

        Not giving someone due process, means they don’t have to look at those government documents (and they haven’t been in several cases and admitted it). That means YOU, they can refuse to look at your ID or say it is fake, refuse to let you prove it in court- THAT’S DUE PROCESS

        NONE of this, and I can’t emphasize this enough, is about these people’s actual legal citizenship status or not, so your first two points are mind-numbingly bad. Whether you get your day in court is how we determine ANYTHING in this country so we MUST grant it, or else they own your body and self and can just kidnap you anywhere, literally.

        You’re a fucking idiot.

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          20 hours ago

          The government checking a database for records and ensuring those are correct and in line with the information the accused has (via a judicial body), IS DUE PROCESS.

          Okay, so when ICE goes to arrest people for whom they have no immigration records, they’ve already done their due process then, haven’t they. Glad we agree here.

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                No, you didn’t.

                Okay, so when ICE goes to arrest people for whom they have no immigration records, they’ve already done their due process then, haven’t they.

                That’s not what due process is. Please, get lead chelation therapy asap

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                    I’ve already thoroughly explained. It’s not due process to “check in the database ahead of time” for citizenship status. That’s not what due process is or how it works. They can just CLAIM they did that for everyone, including you, and then you have NO RECOURSE to fix it or change it (THAT’S due process…!)

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        21 hours ago

        And while I’m at it, suppose someone is born in the US but not in a hospital. They’d have the claim but not the papers to show. Fuck 'em?

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        22 hours ago

        We doin law by statistical probability? What are the odds their kid flushed their papers down the toilet that morning. They just SOL?

        There’s a process for determining citizenship and “that tattooed guy with brown skin looks illegal. Send him to the torture slave camp” aint it champ. He even had his papers. Try again.

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          20 hours ago

          If the kid flushed down the papers they’ll still be the government database, won’t they.

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            10 hours ago

            You dodged the actual point tho. people are owed due process and the presumption of innocence and snap jusgements are instead being made on the color of people’s skin. And again, that football player they sent to el salvador had a fucking greencard, he was a legal resident.

            this isnt nazi germany pal, you dont just go up to people and demand their papers and then send them to a fucking camp whether they have them or not.