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Out of curiosity, what is your understanding of the rights afforded to individuals within the United States regardless of their legality? Especially with regard
by dagmx 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your understanding of the rights afforded to individuals within the United States regardless of their legality? Especially with regards to applying for humanitarian refuge legally?
The perceived partisanship of this is directly related to what you consider the rights of the people versus what is written in law etc...
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI personally believe that everyone in the USA should be protected via their Constitutionally mandated personal rights. That said there is nothing in the Constitution about giving asylum and that is the mandate of Congress. I personally believe that a well thought out quota system is needed. We can't take everyone in the world who wants to seek asylum here. That's simply not possible. No one who isn't a US citizen has a right to live here, it is strictly up to the US government to say how many in what time span.
- dagmx 6y agoThe ACLU however is not defending people's unilateral right to live in the US. They are defending the right to due process and the ability to apply for humanitarian refugee status. If it can be shown that undocumented immigrants were afforded those, then the ACLU hasn't gotten involved to the best of my knowledge.