Judge Jia M. Cobb rejected what she called “a truly startling argument” from the government that it could use a fast-track procedure to remove people arrested far from the southern border.
When mere accusation lets them take away your right to a fair hearing, then nobody has any rights at all. Let’s hope this ruling holds.l upon appeal.
“In defending this skimpy process, the government makes a truly startling argument: that those who entered the country illegally are entitled to no process under the Fifth Amendment, but instead must accept whatever grace Congress affords them,” she wrote.
“Were that right, not only noncitizens, but everyone would be at risk,” she added. “The government could accuse you of entering unlawfully, relegate you to a bare-bones proceeding where it would ‘prove’ your unlawful entry and then immediately remove you.”
If anyone can be denied due process then literally no one is assured of getting their day in court. If this judge’s ruling is overturned, then anyone anywhere can be grabbed by a masked ICE agent, shoved in an unmarked van, given no chance to prove that they are a legal resident or even an American citizen, and then be deported to a foreign country that they’ve never even been to. This is not normal.
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If anyone can be denied due process then literally no one is assured of getting their day in court, If this judge’s ruling is overturned, then anyone anywhere can be grabbed by a masked ICE agent, shoved in an unmarked van, given no chance to prove that they are a legal resident or even an American citizen, and then be deported to a foreign country that they’ve never even been to.
That’s the entire idea, yes.
They’ll just ignore this and continue doing what they’ve been doing.
Even this article addresses the issue as if it’s not happening. “It could be used…”
How have we not realized. There us no law. Just gentlemen’s agreements.
