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Senator Van Hollen Claims Illegal Aliens Have U.S. “Constitutional Rights”
The Last Refuge ^ | April 20, 2025 | Sundance

Posted on 04/20/2025 2:25:33 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

When did citizens of other nations gain USA constitutional rights?

According to Senator Van Hollen discussing illegal alien Abrego Garcia has U.S. “Constitutional Rights.” Van Hollen claimed on CBS, “I want to be really clear, this is not a case about just one man whose constitutional rights are being ignored and disrespected. Because when you trample on the constitutional rights of one man, as the courts have all said is happening in this case, you threaten the constitutional rights of every American.” WATCH:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; arrestvanhollen; democrats; dueprocess; illegalaliens; marylandman; senate; treason; trump; vanhollen
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To: Amendment10

+1


261 posted on 04/21/2025 7:38:46 PM PDT by mbj
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To: GingisK

“Section. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

(This plainly states it is a RIGHT, not a privilege.)


262 posted on 04/21/2025 7:47:11 PM PDT by mbj
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To: spintreebob

+1


263 posted on 04/21/2025 7:50:51 PM PDT by mbj
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To: mbj
This plainly states it is a RIGHT, not a privilege.

Yes, a right of the citizen only. That does make it a privilege of a citizen, not available to illegals and non-citizens. It is the one and only benefit of citizenship.

264 posted on 04/21/2025 7:53:17 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Lazamataz

+1


265 posted on 04/21/2025 8:03:59 PM PDT by mbj
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To: GingisK

My material evidence is from GengisK : ‘Not all persons physically present in the Unitedstates are entitled to ALL ( i.e. the ENTIRETY) Constitutional rights’ as are ALL Americans.
res ipsa loquitur


266 posted on 04/21/2025 8:09:59 PM PDT by A strike ("My country is fd up. I demand you let us in to fix yours..")
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To: GingisK

You were factually wrong and did not admit it.

And you are still wrong, but I will respectfully leave it at that for now - I have much better things to do.


267 posted on 04/21/2025 8:14:28 PM PDT by mbj
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To: GingisK; mbj

you are too confused. It is a RIGHT of a citizen, therefore NOT a privilege.

also another right not acknowledged by the Constitution to just anyone who happens to be here.


268 posted on 04/21/2025 8:21:58 PM PDT by A strike ("My country is fd up. I demand you let us in to fix yours..")
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To: mbj

The paperwork on all of Garcia’s arrests, deportation orders, evidence of gang affiliation, human trafficking, domestic abuse, etc etc are posted at several official govt sites-he first came over the Southern border illegally in 2011, he was caught and issued deportation orders twice since then, by 2 different judges. There is no evidence anywhere that he ever had a green card, nor did he claim that he did-he is married to an American citizen, but that does not make him legal-he is a mojado...


269 posted on 04/21/2025 8:27:32 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Acknowledged, Texan: thank you!


270 posted on 04/21/2025 8:30:41 PM PDT by mbj
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To: GingisK

Question 2: Do illegal aliens have a right to trial by a jury of their peers?


271 posted on 04/21/2025 8:32:02 PM PDT by A strike ("My country is fd up. I demand you let us in to fix yours..")
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To: mbj

You’re welcome...


272 posted on 04/21/2025 8:42:52 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Jonty30

In every other country in the world, we as noncitizens have some rights there, BUT NOT ALL the rights their citizens do.

Likewise, here, noncitizens DO NOT HAVE ALL THE RIGHTS citizens do. And criminal noncitizens here illegally, have even less rights than visiting noncitizens.


273 posted on 04/21/2025 8:54:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mbj

You must not be familiar with the mores and customs of English common law, and American jurisprudence.


I did not say that all persons in the U.S. have all Constitutional rights, but they do have some. Obviously (although some jurisdictions seem to want to change this), non-citizens do not have the right to vote.

Nearly all of the protections listed in the Bill of Rights refers to ‘persons’, not citizens. The same holds true for the 14th Amendment. One reason for the passage of the 14th was the Dred Scott decision which specifically excluded blacks from the rights as ‘persons’. Quotes from various Senators do not constitute how the laws are applied.

The current question seems to revolve around the idea of how many times an illegal alien gets to avail himself of these right. If a court has ordered him deported, doesn’t that constitute ‘due process of law’? How many bites of the apple is he entitled to?


274 posted on 04/21/2025 9:02:40 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: A strike
you are too confused. It is a RIGHT of a citizen, therefore NOT a privilege.

Perhaps I am trying to use more distinct semantics.

275 posted on 04/22/2025 5:24:44 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: mbj

As a ‘Permanent Resident Alien’ I certainly did have the right to a jury.

Voting or receiving SS were the main limitations.


276 posted on 04/22/2025 6:40:01 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: GingisK

Unfortunately it’s not working.


277 posted on 04/22/2025 9:38:41 PM PDT by A strike ("My country is fd up. I demand you let us in to fix yours..")
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To: SoConPubbie

I am sure he was as concerned about the Constitutional rights of actual US citizens who sat in jail for 4 years without being charged with anything and without access to an attorney for simply being on the steps of the Capitol on 01/06/21.


278 posted on 04/23/2025 4:23:50 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: 9YearLurker
Cloward-Piven destruction of our country if an army of invaders can’t actually be repelled.

We are seeing the Cloward Piven strategy on steroids. The objective is to overwhelm the system in order to destroy it. Import the illegals by the millions all at once by circumventing the process, but we can only deport them one at a time after exhausting every single court process at the expense of the US taxpayer. It will be impossible to mass deport the illegal invaders so we simply have to incentivize them to self-deport by eliminating the incentive structure. Cut off the funding they receive and start punishing the employers who hire them. Also, start taxing remittances by 100%. The illegals will largely self-deport.

279 posted on 04/23/2025 4:30:11 AM PDT by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: SoConPubbie

These people are illegal criminal aliens and have not rights and should get nothing but a bus ticket to the border.


280 posted on 04/23/2025 4:30:31 AM PDT by wbslws
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