Can a Republican president pardon people who have broken environmental laws (according to the EPA) or who have not paid whatever the IRS demands?
The web site of Professor Markowitz is here. Quoting it,
"Peter L. Markowitz is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he founded and directs the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic. The clinic focuses on the intersection of immigration and criminal law and on immigration enforcement issues. It provides deportation defense representation to individuals and represents community-based and national advocacy organizations on impact projects. The clinic has been awarded the Daniel Levy Award for outstanding and innovative advocacy in the field of immigration.
Professor Markowitz and his clinic has been responsible for numerous innovations in the field, for example: spearheading the developing of the nation’s first public defender system for detained immigrants, developing the concept of detainer discretion, and initiating the nation’s first full-service in-house immigration unit located in a public defender office."
President Trump can immediately unpardon them.
the brutality of our nation’s unforgiving immigration laws.
WTF the left and the media in this country have gone totally insane. The propaganda is mind blowing.
Wouldn’t they be committing the same crime again just as soon as they were pardoned? How can one be pardoned for future crimes?
So basically we are not a nation of laws anymore.
And the left never thinks these tactics will ever be used against them one day.
Why stop there? Why not just pardon all convicts everywhere? Think of all the votes the Democratic Party would get!
... our nation’s unforgiving immigration laws ...
We have carefully crafted and generous immigration laws that allow for lawful and logical entry for most anyone who abides by our system. What the NYT and Obama seek is to trash the rule of law and our culture.
I don’t think the President can pardon for future crimes. One day after a pardon, a person continuing to stay in a country illegally would again be breaking the law.
“...from the brutality of our nation’s unforgiving immigration laws.”
That they can write that statement means they think the overthrow of American civilization is complete.
He has proven time and time again he can do as he damn well pleases. No one will oppose him.
After yesterday, he can do whatever he wants.
This has already been exposed as total BS, but the Times keeps repeating it. This administration classifies it as a "deportation" every time someone is refused entrance into the country at the border for not being a citizen.
I’ve thought about this.
Obama can pardon them for ILLEGAL ENTRY - meaning coming here without passing through a border checkpoint.
He CANNOT pardon them for BEING HERE illegally - different crime. He can ignore them for being here illegally, but once Trump is here, they are still here ILLEGALLY...and they can then be deported.
Of course he can.
He will ignore laws and constitutional restraints and do as he wishes.
Why not - he has been doing it for 7½ years with little push back from republicans.
Once amnesty is granted republicans won’t have the guts to push for it to be rescinded (can’t upset the Hispanic illegals, you know).
A few republicans who are up for re-election will issue strongly worded statements in time for the 6:00 news.
Congress will hold hearings that get them a few minutes preening and primping on TV but accomplish nothing else.
I doubt it since the requests are very formalized. There are all sorts of case information and detail at must be submitted with the request for pardon. This packet is reviewed by the DOJ and then a recommendation is forwarded to the president. That at least is what is supposed to happen
With the DiC and his beard still in office, all bets are off
“Congress would be impotent to restrict the president’s pardon as the Supreme Court has made clear that “Congress cannot interfere in any way with the president’s power to pardon.” If immigration enforcement agencies or any future administration failed to respect the pardon, individual beneficiaries could use it as a shield in any deportation proceedings that followed.”
What a dumb ass! A pardon won’t change the law that they broke by crossing the border, it would just send them home without that crime on their record!
Only Congress can change the law.
He can pardon them for past crimes, not continuing or future ones. He cannot pardon an illegal alien into a legal one.
The NY Slimes is promoting dictatorship.