To: Tzimisce
"I got a better idea: let's just enforce the old laws and deport these people."
That would work if it were the old law. But in the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled that merely being in the United States illegally was not a deportable crime; there has to be due process. That's why Bush spoke up yesterday about deportation. Imagine 11,000,000 hearings (and me not in law school yet!)
31 posted on
04/25/2006 7:11:49 AM PDT by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: GAB-1955
That ruling is 100 years dead. It's time to start deporting people again.
33 posted on
04/25/2006 11:50:12 AM PDT by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: GAB-1955
But in the 1880s, the Supreme Court ruled that merely being in the United States illegally was not a deportable crime That Supreme Court ruling does not effect 1 deportation.
Every illegal is in violation of several immigration laws and illegal presence in the US is irrelevant.
Also, if there were 11 million illegals, there would not be 11 million hearings. Most would voluntarily return to their home country to bypass a formal deportation.
40 posted on
04/25/2006 12:40:34 PM PDT by
Marine Inspector
(Government is not the solution to our problem; Government is the problem)
To: GAB-1955
You'd think the lawyers would love this! But once again the hard working US citizen would have to pay for the court costs through more taxes.
How'd we get into this mess?
46 posted on
04/26/2006 9:34:59 AM PDT by
3catsanadog
(When anything goes, everything does.)
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