[BigWest]

Wow, so how do you define a "criminal?"
Is a criminal a person that the police take into custody on the suspicion of having engaged in illegal conduct?
Or is a criminal a person who has been convicted by a jury of his peers ,or in the alternative has admitted such guilt?
Granted, if a person is suspected of a murder or other violent crimes he or she may be legally held without bail if a judge believes that the individual is a danger to society, but this person is still entitled to a fair trial to determine his guilt and whether or not he's a criminal or not.
While I agree that many people here illegally should be deported and that visas should never have been granted to most of them, that doesn't change the fact that your defintion of a criminal is lacking and one that would pave the way to tyranny in this country.
I always thought Free Republic was a place to SUPPORT the Constitution that our forefathers provided us, not a forum to demand the repeal of its basic protections.

[LenS]

Sorry, the definition of criminal is irrelevant. He's a non-citizen. He has zero rights.

[thinktwice]

how do you define a "criminal?"

Someone that breaks the law.

We're at war, Friend; and civil liberties will be a new ball game in America.