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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The underlying rationale adopted by the Supremes for deportation is also quite disturbing. The lead cases on deportation hold that normal constitutional protections such as due process do not apply, because deportation is an exercise of a fundamental power of a sovereign that is extra-constitutional (just like the power to declare martial law and suspend the constitution, as Lincoln did in the West during the Civil War).
This makes deportation and the INS our equivalent of the old Soviet "mental health" wards.
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People, please. Way too deep. I had to go out and check the door cuz I thought I had stumbled into the PB. Let's talk about sex or shoes or hockey (sseason starts tonight, by the way). I cannot believe that I am the one who has to slap everyone to refocus.
Not that it matters, but my view is that people who enter the country illegally should be sent back to their own country. If Gwinky is so opposed to this perhaps she can get the great state..er...country of Canada to volunteer to take them all in. You know, all those hugging quasi-socialist countries in Europe don't let immigrants, legal or not, into their fold in number anywhere close to what we do. And I don't buy the "America is the land of bread and honey and thus owes everyone else in the world a chance there" argument. Get down to brass tacks and you have a good argument to prevent me from tossing a homeless person who decides to walk into my house and stay because I have it better than he does. Accident or not, this is my country and I don't want to fucking doors thrown wide open, especially when we have more than enough homegrown deadbeats to take care of.*
*Many immigrants are hardworkers but there are some who are not and who come here to try to take advantage of the system. It sucks to know that there are lawbreakers (read: people who got here illegally) who receive free healthcare when there are struggling working-class Americans who have no coverage and can't afford to see a doctor until it is too late.
