The Pew Research Center reported last March that 97% of American adults want to deport illegal aliens who commit violent crimes. Yet, the violent criminal illegal aliens being deported to South Sudan are so vicious that their own countries won't take them back and we have no power to compel them to. I don't see how Linda Chavez or anybody else can convince such an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens that they must tolerate violent illegal aliens among them.
While I agree that the Trump administration is behaving abysmally here, I'm not sure if the Supreme Court should put a stop to it.
Take this analogy: if someone on parole commits a crime, they need to serve time both for the parole violation and the new crime. Similarly, if a recent immigrant commits a crime, deportation is part of the punishment.
South Sudan troubles me, but I don't think it's The Court's job which countries are suitable candidates.
One institutional and structural reason for the current international system of deportations is that there is no official global citizenship, thereby resulting in national governments being able to act in inhumane, arbitrary and discriminatory ways instead of fully respecting individual rights and freedoms and cooperating in accordance with the rule of law. Arbitrary depictions are a way for authoritarians to provide mental masturbation for their voters by triggering tribalist and authoritarian actions in the heads and brains of their voters who are feeling stimulated by such actions of governments
The Supreme Court has long been rather hostile to the 8th Amendment ban on cruel & unusual punishment, even for American citizens. For example, the Supreme Court upheld a life sentence (if I remember right, without parole) for first time possession of 6 grams of cocaine, and another guy for stealing a $50 TV (with possibility of parole).
This is great Linda. These cases are outrageous. I'm stunned there are lawyers willing to argue them in court
The Pew Research Center reported last March that 97% of American adults want to deport illegal aliens who commit violent crimes. Yet, the violent criminal illegal aliens being deported to South Sudan are so vicious that their own countries won't take them back and we have no power to compel them to. I don't see how Linda Chavez or anybody else can convince such an overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens that they must tolerate violent illegal aliens among them.
While I agree that the Trump administration is behaving abysmally here, I'm not sure if the Supreme Court should put a stop to it.
Take this analogy: if someone on parole commits a crime, they need to serve time both for the parole violation and the new crime. Similarly, if a recent immigrant commits a crime, deportation is part of the punishment.
South Sudan troubles me, but I don't think it's The Court's job which countries are suitable candidates.
One institutional and structural reason for the current international system of deportations is that there is no official global citizenship, thereby resulting in national governments being able to act in inhumane, arbitrary and discriminatory ways instead of fully respecting individual rights and freedoms and cooperating in accordance with the rule of law. Arbitrary depictions are a way for authoritarians to provide mental masturbation for their voters by triggering tribalist and authoritarian actions in the heads and brains of their voters who are feeling stimulated by such actions of governments
The Supreme Court has long been rather hostile to the 8th Amendment ban on cruel & unusual punishment, even for American citizens. For example, the Supreme Court upheld a life sentence (if I remember right, without parole) for first time possession of 6 grams of cocaine, and another guy for stealing a $50 TV (with possibility of parole).