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Kavanaugh backs Trump on jailing and deporting immigrants for crimes committed years earlier
The Los Angeles Times ^ | October 10, 2018 | David G. Savage

Posted on 10/10/2018 11:27:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Newly seated Justice Brett Kavanaugh spoke up Wednesday in defense of the Trump administration’s view that legal immigrants with criminal records can be arrested and held for deportation, even years after they were convicted and completed their sentences.

At issue is a federal law that calls for mandatory detention and possible deportation for “criminal aliens,” including legal immigrants convicted of crimes ranging from violent felonies to simple drug possession. The law says the Homeland Security secretary “shall take into custody any alien” with a criminal record that could lead to deportation “when the alien is released.”

The debate focuses on when exactly is “when”?

In a class-action suit brought in California, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union complained the mandatory detention policy has been applied to lawful immigrants who had lived and worked in the community for decades after being convicted of misdemeanors, such as drug possession charges.

The administration argues that a provision of the 1996 law calls for arresting and jailing such immigrants, despite their good records after serving their time....

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brett’s gonna be the Big Man on the Campus


81 posted on 10/11/2018 3:55:40 PM PDT by Third Person (Without double standards the left would have no standards at all.)
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To: ladyjane
Journalists should be required to take a college level civics course.

And a drug test, and an IQ test, and a Common Sense test.

They would all fail miserably.

82 posted on 10/11/2018 4:07:37 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ladyjane
Journalists should be required to take a college level civics course.

...and pass.

83 posted on 10/11/2018 7:27:39 PM PDT by gogeo (The Repubs may not always deserve to win, but the RATs always deserve to lose.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good start.


84 posted on 10/12/2018 12:59:23 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: cuban leaf
The law is the law. And we are a country of laws, not men. Well, we are since Trump was elected.

And just because the govt abdicated its responsibility to its citizens in the past does not mean it cannot go back and make it right.

They are supposed to be deported and they don't get a free pass just because it didn't happen immediately.

85 posted on 10/12/2018 1:02:12 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NICE! Very very nice .


86 posted on 10/12/2018 3:43:50 PM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go Brett!


87 posted on 10/13/2018 1:09:20 PM PDT by American Quilter (That's "Justice Kavanaugh" to you, leftists!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Got time for a dumb question? A 1996 law is being used...How can that be when DHS wasn’t formed until after 9/11/01? To be exact - November 25, 2002...

::It was created in response to the September 11 attacks and is the youngest U.S. cabinet department.::


88 posted on 10/13/2018 2:52:48 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

“”who moved up here from a Southern state, after being invited and discovering the better freebies””

That has to be the explanation as you would think they’d want to hunker down where there’s better weather than Maine has - at least in the winter!!!! Hey - maybe they go south in the winter! All expenses paid!


89 posted on 10/13/2018 2:59:06 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Moonman62

In legal terms, a naturalized person is no longer an “immigrant”. A green card holder, or “permanent resident” is the definition of “immigrant” under US law, and there is no requirement that such a person ever naturalizes. They can live their entire life as an immigrant if they wish.


90 posted on 10/14/2018 5:10:21 AM PDT by billakay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LA Times is fake news. They’re misleading on things.


91 posted on 10/14/2018 5:45:31 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Did you hear “hold my beer!” As he uttered that comment? He’s a man on a mission. He’s earned that spot.


92 posted on 10/17/2018 2:33:42 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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