A reminder about your rights. If the government can declare you to have an attribute that negates your rights, then you have no rights.
In laymen’s terms, if ICE arrests you and fast deports you, whose going to stop them? Okay but you get to a consulate in the foreign country and get back home. When you come out of your lawyer’s office (because you’re suing ICE), ICE arrests you again, this time as a criminal illegal alien because you came back in. They tell no one they have you, they tell no one where you are. You have no rights according to them. You are sent to an El Salvadoran prison in contravention of a court order not to deport you.
These are all things that have happened separately. We’ve accidently deported Americans. We’ve deported Americans on purpose. (Trump sent American kids away so he could deport their parents too) We’ve deported someone to an El Salvadoran prison in contravention of a court order.
If they don’t have rights, then neither do you because the government can just declare you a member of that group and as long as the guys with guns maintain that fiction, nobody can stop them.
This is also why the attacks on identification documentation for transgender people should concern everyone. We used to consider ex post facto laws unconstitutional - even things like sex registry acts have been historically controversial because they were adding a punishment that had not been previously ordained.
I spent $5500 that I could not afford (as in, I ended up having to do sex work to pay for it) - to get my “irreversible and permanent” surgery that the state I lived in said would qualify to have my legal sex changed. Like, I would have preferred to wait until I was in a more financially stable situation or might not have even bothered because I didn’t even really need to bind to pass - but the drivers license with an “F” is a problem once you have a full beard.
I followed their rules, I played their games. And now they get to say, nope, doesn’t count anymore. That’s not how the law is supposed to work.
I’m so sorry, I don’t think we live in a country subject to rule of law anymore though.
I’ve gotten the excuse to read both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself, out loud, with teenagers several times recently. Jefferson was a hypocrite and fuckwit that made money off of the back of child labor and raped the women he owned, but those words do have meaning. Any government calling itself the US that does not heed those words is not legitimate.
Yeah legitimacy is a thing so many people don’t understand. And it’s why they want to cloak their actions on official language and procedure. We would riot if they just disappeared people. So they make it seem like they aren’t just doing that.
A reminder about your rights. If the government can declare you to have an attribute that negates your rights, then you have no rights.
Any time someone claims that some group of people should have no/reduced due process, I respond essentially the same way: “If you believe that $GROUP shouldn’t have due process then you are a $GROUP_MEMBER. Prove you’re not without any due process.” Before this year, it was mostly people accused of sexual assault, but illegal immigrants are the new target of choice as people who allegedly don’t deserve due process rights.
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Even though being in the country undocumented is a civil offense, like speeding or something. Still, using language alone, they made this the one offense that supposedly makes a person be “illegal” — textbook dehumanization btw.
So it’s legally on par with speeding, factually less dangerous than speeding, but somehow it’s seen as the worst “crime” in the country, so bad that they argue it warrants suspending due process like you’re at war or something. Manufactured delusion.
they made this the one offense that makes a person be “illegal”
It doesn’t make the person be illegal, but we nounify crimes to describe people who have committed said crime all the time.
The whole point of the “undocumented worker” language is to make it sound like someone who misplaced some paperwork, rather than someone who violated immigration law.
I mean, no one gets mad when you use the more common terms to describe an undocumented procurement specialist, an adverse euthanasia specialist or an unauthorized sexual partner. Despite those terms describing the person as being their violation of law.
For sure. I just meant that they intentionally and repeatedly use this wording to obscure the fact that undocumented status isn’t that big a problem (it doesn’t hurt anyone except maybe the undocumented person), as well as to reinforce the idea on a subconscious level that they’re somehow dangerous criminals.
Boy, what a self aware example that shows of so many of the issues on the right.
If others don’t have rights, you don’t either.
definition of a bad actor right there.
People like her argue in bad faith.
Shun and ostracize people like her.
Remove them from your civil social circles.
Only side eye!
Bitch you asked
Pretty sure the idea of due process extends to ensuring the government respects “certain unalienable rights” that America recognizes all people are born with–that includes non-citizens
unalienable
Annie got a gun but not a brain. Without the right to due process for EVERYONE, the state can just snatch anyone they want off the street and claim the person they snatched is a member of a group that isn’t entitled to due process. The person, even if they are a citizen, will have no hearing or trial, no right to contact anyone, and be whisked away to a secret prison labor camp or even a death camp. Hey Annie, I’m from the government and I’ve decided you look like a foreigner. No phone calls, no judge, no jury, straight to the camp with you. #Fascism #PoliceState #MagaIdiot
That about sums it up. They don’t believe the outgroup deserves rights. But if the outgroup doesn’t have rights nobody does, they’re just privileges that can be taken away at any time
And, it should be noted, the purpose of due process includes to check if these people are breaking any rules and if they’re supposed to be here as well as if they’re citizens.
The rule of law…or even the Constitution of the United States…is what they say it is. Their rules, they make up the law to suit what they’ve already done. The constitution, courts, legal code, hell…even the Bible, can get fucked. They’re all petty kings, judge, and jury rolled up into one.
All of that without grasping that they, themselves- are members of an outgroup that won’t always have influence. Assuming democracy can make a come back and something changes in the next election they may find themselves in that “unpopular” group. Bet they’d change their tune for the 37th time in that case.
It makes me wonder for what purpose people think nations have courts. Sure, we want to punish murderers, why is there a court? Now, let’s talk about “illegal aliens”.
Assemble a list of MAGAts. Denounce all of them as illegal aliens. At least a few of them will be deported.
Repeat ad infinitum.
non-american here, what is an “alien” in this context? i imagine it doesn’t mean “extraterrestrial”
edit: actually nvm, i just searched it up. why are people being called aliens? does this word even fit that role?
I think it’s the original definition of the word alien, but I might be wrong. Kinda derogatory now but still used in legal contexts
I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien. I’m an Englishman in New York
Are you the guy Sting wrote the song about?
Nope. I like my toast done on both sides.
Could we hear it in your accent when you talk?
Maybe, but I sound pretty American coming from the west coast of Canada?
Where did you think the scifi term alien came from?
It just means foreigner, people will even use it as a verb
Something is alien (unknown) to me
Alienate is to exclude
Comes from here https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/alienus#Latin
yes it’s the appropriate term with the same meaning dating back to its original latin meaning, well before the concept of extraterrestrials
Bill Clinton used the phrase “illegal alien” to refer to immigrants without legal status like a green card, Regan and Bush were very pro immigration and both gave amnesty to immigrants in the US without legal status so they could stay in the US work, and apply for legal status, Clinton beat HW Bush by attacking him for the right on immigration, stoking racist hate towards Mexicans, Chicanos, and other Hispanics, which beat Bush badly, the GOP has been as hard line anti-immigrant as possible ever since, in fact Bod Dole lost a lot of votes by saying he wanted military all along the southern boarder, and as stupid as it was then it still is today, even though the average racist American views all Hispanic peoples as Mexicans who illegally enter on foot or swimming, the vast majority of undocumented or authorized immigrants enter on planes, with legal status. Staying Legal in the US is like going to the DMV and getting your car registered, except the rules always change, your job at work can lie and say they are sponsoring you, or processing paperwork for you until you are illegal and face zero consequences, the enforcing officers can make up rules on the spot and process deportation and imprisonment against your legal rights, and even if you have a lawyer, you might never get resolution on any matter, you could end up stuck in prison without any way to sort of what got you there as “they were suspected of a crime, so we won’t be processing anything” using the unjustified arrest or detainment AS the pretext for the continued legal abuse.
where was I? oh yeah. Clinton used to say it a lot in the 90’s was a whole buzzword.
Clinton beat HW Bush by attacking him for the right on immigration, stoking racist hate towards Mexicans, Chicanos, and other Hispanics, which beat Bush badly
Bill Clinton is a racist, sex pest? Sounds a lot like Trumpy.
- Allegedly let cocaine enter Arkansas
- pardoned his own brother (after he had served the sentence)
- allegedly used state trooper to scout women and drive him to affairs
- flew back to Arkansas while campaigning for the execution of Ricky Ray Rector (who was mentally impaired after shooting himself in the head)
- endorsed the Democratic Council Leadership’s rhetoric of subtle racism
- held a press conference in Stone Mountain, home of the second rendition of the KKK
and I just picked from his presidential campaign.
Also, I don’t buy his excuse. He committed perjury.
Fucking fascists
This is why US concentration camps are in Guntanamo Bay and El Salvador
The problem is this is the same answer as the party in power and their cock-slurping media. Bits of paper don’t matter if their mandates aren’t enforced by anyone.
why are we still pretending that an online argument is going to solve anything?
guns
Calling for insurrection without a plan will simply accelerate the slide into dictatorship. Until you have someone willing to stand up and lead those guns somewhere you’re just going to get steamrolled.
Based on your comment history, that’s probably what you’d like the best.
there is currently no army to lead.
when the people are ready, it will be easy to assign targets. we don’t even need a ‘leader’. think tanks can simply post viable targets and tactics as public information.
