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.
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…
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
We’re almost certainly fucked. It is depressing.
almost
Optimistic person I see?
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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Spoiler - so very many things donnie dumbass has been doing since taking office are illegal.
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.
Since when has “obviously illegal” ever stopped him.
Pretending that the law matters during a fascist coup is not productive.
“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
