Deportation plans don’t exist to please migrants

President-elect Trump hasn’t even taken office again and the chattering classes are already having a meltdown about what they see as the negative effects “mass deportations” will produce.

A significant amount of the pearl-clutching is based on claims that it’s somehow cruel to deport uninvited guests who happened to have avoided the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) long enough to put down roots in the United States. This is an utterly illogical argument and one that would never be tolerated in connection with any other crime or civil violation.

This specious argument persists because people who advocate for illegal aliens deliberately misrepresent U.S. immigration law. They insist that illegal aliens have a plethora of rights that must be protected. They portray a hearing before an immigration judge as a “trial.” And they lead the public to believe that a deportation order is a “punishment” akin to a criminal sentence. But none of this is actually true.

As far as rights go, way back in 1892, the Supreme Court held that, with regard to aliens in removal proceedings, “the decisions of executive or administrative officers, acting within powers expressly conferred by Congress are due process of law.” In plain English, that means that immigration violators are entitled to a hearing before the Immigration Court and to the appellate process set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

A hearing before the Immigration Court isn’t a trial. It’s an administrative proceeding where the alien facing deportation is given an opportunity to show cause why he or she should not be removed from the U.S.

In fact, the document summoning immigration violators to their hearing in front of an immigration judge used to be called an “Order to Show Cause” for just that reason. There are essentially four questions that have to be answered in an immigration proceeding:

1) Is the person in the dock an alien?
2) If so, does the alien have permission to be in the United States?
3) Did the alien violate the requirements of the INA?
4) Is there any relief from deportation available to the alien?

The deportation plan only needs to be for the first few planeloads sent to Afghanistan, Ukraine - wherever. Make it a game show. Show the deportations on television and the internet. People can place their bets online. "Contestant A just won a free trip to sunny Haiti."

Then watch the rest self-deport.

We have no obligation to send these illegal alien invaders to their last suspected country.

After all, if this country is so unkind and disrespectful of migrant rights, why does half the world want to relocate here?

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They come for the freebies. Illegals get free health care at ERs and free k-12 for their kids and welfare money. Each illegal momma and her 8 kids costs america somewhere around $100,000 every year.

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