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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Actually Khan was referencing illegal Mexican immigrants on American soil that Trump has said he'd round up and ship back to Mexico, where in the United States they have "liberty" and "equal protection of law" according to our constitution. "... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Any person, not citizen, on U.S. soil.
I'm not waiving the flag of open immigration BTW. I live in Southern California and South American immigrants have ravaged & abused our economy. Year after year the Republican controlled Senate and House have rejected bills to increase border patrol and fix/extend the border wall. I made a post of the 3 last bills struck down somewhere here on GFY.
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Just to be technically accurate, the language you're citing comes from the XIV Amendment and applies to the states - not the federal government. The same result however comes from interpretation of the Vth, in many if not all cases. No dispute that once an immigrant has landed, he has a due process right to a hearing. But that's not a right to remain. It's a right to fight the issue of legality before deportation. And in the end, if he's illegal, he can be deported. Your point is that no one is trying to deport those present here illegally. With or without a fair process. That is a legitimate concern. What good is a law if no one will enforce it? And that's the divide between Trump and the Democrats. He promises to enforce the law better. The Democrats mumble platitudes and argue tear-jerking stories about anchor babies, and about illegal immigrants who go into the military and serve, come out, commit forcible felonies and protest that military service protects a right to remain here forever no matter how many felonies they commit. But in the end, the Democrats are preaching disrespect for the laws, and thereby undermine law in general, giving people one more rationale to pick and chose what laws to obey.
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