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 ...
Brett’s gonna be the Big Man on the Campus
And a drug test, and an IQ test, and a Common Sense test.
They would all fail miserably.
...and pass.
Good start.
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.
NICE! Very very nice .
Go Brett!
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.::
“”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!
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.
LA Times is fake news. They’re misleading on things.
Did you hear “hold my beer!” As he uttered that comment? He’s a man on a mission. He’s earned that spot.
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